instead of living life with extreme psychological pain.Harold Bloom said," The most intelligent character in literature…a humorist, his humor being cousin to his speculative tendency… the only Shakespearean character we might imagine to have written Shakespeare's plays…our Prince of Denmark is a phenomenon of modern consciousness, refracted, divided, ambivalent. Shakespeare had been working up to him with such figures as Berowne, Philip the Bastard, Portia, Rosalind and Brutus, all characters of deep and broad awareness whose relations with themselves are as complex as their relations with the outside world. But nowhere before had he achieved the 1600 Hamlet's capability and godlike reason his large discourse, looking before and after. Neither he, perhaps, nor anybody else has done so since." It is evident that William Shakespeare's: Hamlet was of tremendous human intelligence and very aware of his situation. It would be of extreme disrespect to believe that Hamlet truly went mad. Hamlet was much to brilliant for that. He was only putting on a play for the kingdom of Elsinore. Like Hamlet said, "The plays the thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."(Shakespeare 2.2 633-634)...
