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Is Hamlet's madness feigned or real? The idea of a character feigning madness is not foreign to great literary works. In fact, many authors use it to show the sanity of the character. Take Homer's The Iliad for example. The main character Odysseus shows his sanity by pretending to be mad in order to avoid having to fight. If his plan had been successful, he would have stayed safe at home, away from the dangers of war. The idea of feigning madness is also apparent throughout Shakespeare's Hamlet. Hamlet puts on an act after he is told of his father's murder, perhaps to have something on which he can place the blame after he avenges his father's death, or perhaps it is to capture the attention of certain characters so that he may find out exactly what has gone "rotten in the state of Denmark". Though it sounds like a crazy...

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