“Who’s there,” asks Bernardo. Shakespeare, in the first two words of probably his most famous play, already makes the audience feel uncertain about the events that shall later unfold. In Hamlet, Shakespeare seems to pit reason against faith, using the Ghost, supposedly King Hamlet’s spirit, as a tool to master this. However, Shakespeare portrays this inner struggle of reason against faith as Hamlet’s insanity. Does Hamlet become insane in the play, or …showed first 75 words of 1564 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1564 total…get his mother away from his uncle are what Hamlet is set out to find. Hamlet’s sanity is one of the most debated questions of the play, because Shakespeare never actually states whether Hamlet has gone insane or not. Whether Hamlet is insane or not plays a huge rule in why many of the events unfolded as they did. This is why there are so many ways to interpret the many aspects of Hamlet.