“Hamlet's State of Mind” From the beginning of Shakespeare's Hamlet, most of the action is cerebral. The play is limited to Hamlet's reflections on his life in court. Containing a doubtful situation, because one can never be sure of Hamlet's madness, is real or artificial. This is primarily because Hamlet's interpretation of events is the dominant voice in the play. As the play constantly arouses the audience's interest in taking on the obligation to validate Hamlet's means of revenge throughout the play, whether Hamlet is loyal to his father to kill Claudius with evidence and proof, or rather that he went crazy to escape the truth. This ambiguous effect in the play could alter the overall vision of the play, since the first sins out of love for his father and the second out of madness which would deteriorate his means of revenge. Hamlet appears for the first time in the play, he is sad, miserable. , and hysterical, not because of grief over her deceased father, but because of her mother's rapid remarriage to the new king. In this scene, Hamlet does not behave well throughout the scene, behaving like an unsuitable teenager, reluctantly accepting his uncle's denial about his choices for the future. However, in his presence, Hamlet begins a violent expressive speech wishing he were dead, portraying the world as useless and disgusting. His attitude changes drastically after his peers bring up the ghost they saw. He is now calm, expressive and ready for action, which is reflected in many of his lines: "If he takes the person of my noble father, I will speak to him, even if hell itself should remain mouthed gaped and asked me to be quiet” (1.3. 244-246). This could be the beginning of Hamlet this bilatera...... middle of paper ...... when the time comes, he will "put an ancient disposition" (1.5.172). He patiently concocts his plans to provoke a reaction against Claude through a play within a play, which would be enough proof to justify that the king did in fact kill his father as the Ghost tells it. Additionally, Hamlet seems to be able to immediately snap out of madness to hold a perfectly normal conversation with other characters. For example, immediately after arguing with Polonius over the "fishmonger" incident, he was able to have a rational and witty conversation with Guildenstern and Rosencrantz. Shakespeare uses this ambiguity of mental health to illustrate humans' true struggle against death. The evidence that Hamlet's ability to choose when he is capable of acting sane or crazy might be overwhelming, but there are undeniable facts that Hamlet has a deranged perception of life..