A big part of the play revolves around the question of Prince Hamlets madness and if it exists. ... His language is unusual and wild, but beneath his mad-sounding diction often lie clever observations that show the sane mind working bitterly beneath the surface. ... Of Hamlets transformation, so call it. ... eMad call I it, for to define true madness, what ist but to be nothing to be nothing else but mad? ... There is no question that his visible madness was his own plan for seeking revenge for his fathers death. ...

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Therefore, this conflict occurred and prevent him taking any actions other than pretending to be wild. ... In the play, Claudius asked a question to Laertes, If you desire to know the certainty of your good father, is 't writ in your revenge that, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe, winner and loser?... If the first plan was not able be met, Claudius might give Hamlet a cup of wine with poison and let him drink as he said, An that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him a chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, if he by chance escape your venomed stuck, our ...

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However, Horatio and Marcellus even now think that Hamlet is acting rather strangely, saying, "These are wild and whirling words, my lord", and "this is wondrous strange." The next passage of interest is in Act II Sc II, when Claudius says to Rozencrantz and Guildenstern: Something have you heard Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it, Since nor th' exterior nor the inward man Resembles that it was... Mad I call it." ... Rozencrantz and Guildenstern say that Hamlet was eager to ask questions, but not so eager to reply. ...

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