Even before Hamlet is directed to kill Claudius by his father's ghost, he has an excuse to be enraged and unsettled because of his beloved father's death itself and of the lack of concern or mourning on his mother's part, exhibited by her sudden remarriage to Claudius. ...

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Why He Feigns Insanity Hamlet feigns insanity because it allows him to do several things that he otherwise would be unable to do: With respect to Ophelia, Hamlet would like to express his intense, irrepressible anger towards her without arising suspicion in her or in others that he is in ...

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