Hamlet's Great Actor Hamlet is sane, not mad. He's acting by making people think he's really crazy when in reality he's just acting. Hamlet was ordered to avenge his father's death through his father's spirit. The spirit told Hamlet how he died. The spirit said that he was sleeping in his garden when his uncle came and poured poison into his ear. The spirit told Hamlet to avenge his death by killing his uncle. Hamlet wanted to prove that his uncle had really killed his father. His uncle married his mother shortly after the murder of Hamlet's father. I think Hamlet is crying inside because he suspects what really happened. People think Hamlet is crazy but in reality he is just acting. After Hamlet has spoken to the ghost, and Horatio and Marcellus find him, emotionally troubled, he says: "As perhaps hereafter I shall think fit to assume an obnoxious attitude... to point out that you know something of me, this I swear to you." (Act 1, scene 5, line 191-192, 201) This means that if I (Hamlet) act crazy in the future, don't take it seriously, I'm just acting. Hamlet acting crazy will help him prove that his uncle actually killed his father. Hamlet wanted to know if what his father's spirit told him about his uncle killing his father was true, so he took the best actors he could find and reenacted what he thought was the truth. it would be the death of his father, to see what his uncle's reaction would be. When he saw his uncle rush out of the room he knew it was true. If he had been mad he could not have thought of such a good plan to "capture the king's conscience" (Act 2, scene 2, line 634). Hamlet wanted the king to think he was mad. The king thought Hamlet was mad. The king speaking to Rosencranz and Guildenstern says: "something you have heard of Hamlet's transformation, call it so, for neither the outer nor the inner man resembles what he was." (Act 2, scene 2, lines 4-7). Hamlet wanted the king to think he was mad because he didn't want the king to interfere with his plan to find out if he really killed his father. He acted like a madman because he knew that if he did so the king would stay away and he would have time to implement his plan..