In the begging of the play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, even though Hamlet says that he is just pretending to be mad, he really does become mad thought the play. From the beginning when Hamlet says he is not mad he knows that deep down inside the madness is going to come out, but he is just going to deny it. Hamlet is under a great deal of stress. His father has just died, and …showed first 75 words of 960 total…

…showed last 75 words of 960 total…that he was just putting on a show tricked them for a while. In the end the truth came out. Everyone could see that Hamlet was acting crazy. His moods changed abruptly throughout the play, and he was always depressed. Once Hamlet finally admitted that he killed Polonius because he was mad, it was clear that he was not just mad at the end of the play, but he was mad thought the whole play.