Insanity is an ever growing black hole which envelopes the pitiful mind of the its victim. The mental condition of Hamlet is an example of substance vs. accident. The substance is he is not insane and accident is that he is acting to be insane to trick everyone in the castle to believe he is insane. The mental condition of Hamlet has been well debated throughout the years even though in Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet …showed first 75 words of 339 total…

…showed last 75 words of 339 total…people would not be so harsh on him or until he told them the truth about how Claudius killed his father so he could become king. There is a lot of substance vs. accident in this play but Hamlets sanity is a major part in this play. The faking of insanity or being insane made the play interesting. Whether he was or he wasn’t will always be a debate for many years to come.