Real madness cannot be controlled, but feigned madness can easily be controlled to manipulate other people. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlet pretends to be mad to deceive King Claudius and his company when in reality he is not mad at all. Hamlet admits his trick that he is trying to play as well as both Polonius and Claudius, who he is trying to deceive, admit that in some places it seems that Hamlet is simply pretending to be mad. Although Hamlet deceives many people, it is often evident that he is clearly not mad but instead completely sane which he is using to deceive the king and his company. Hamlet refers to his madness in multiple scenes; in two scenes he admits that he is only pretending to be crazy. In act one, scene five, Hamlet admits to the ghost that he will "give a strange attitude" so that he can deceive Claudius and ultimately kill him. Later in the play, when Hamlet speaks to Gertrude in the wardrobe scene in Act Three, Scene Four, he tells his mother that "I [Hamlet] am essentially not mad, but mad in art". ...