Hamlet and MadnessThe following five paragraphs will cover the following point: What is madness? What is the connection between Hamlet and madness? What or who is the cause of madness? While I try to navigate these questions to find the real answers, you will think and decide for yourself whether Hamlet is "crazy" or not. What is madness? Webster's New World Dictionary – Third Academic Edition defines it as “mentally ill or disturbed; demented; mad ; senseless.” My definition is not as cruel as the dictionary one. My opinion on someone who is crazy is that they don't necessarily have all their marbles. The dictionary definition sort of explains my definition which is someone who doesn't pay much attention to those around them. The way people throw around the word crazy makes it seem like it's not a real illness. But the problem is that people don't realize that it's not something they should joke about. About three or four years ago there was a song called "Sane" and in one part they said: "...you're crazy, you have no brain..." So this little phrase in the song is also part of the true meaning of madness. Is Hamlet crazy? Personally, I don't think Hamlet is crazy. I think because the queen didn't want to face her past with her first "real" husband, she called Hamlet "mentally ill or crazy." When we discussed what we think about the subject of your parents paying a friend of yours to talk to you to see if you're okay, I think we also touched on some good points to argue for both sides of the argument . On the one hand, people were saying that what the queen did was wrong because she shouldn't have someone to talk to her son but she should do it herself. And on the other side of the debate, people said they would talk to their friend for the parent, but not if they got paid. I don't think Hamlet is crazy, I think he just needed to collect his thoughts because he was still trying to come to terms with the fact that his mother had married his uncle and she didn't even seem worry about what. he felt. What is the cause of someone being crazy or?