Hamlet may be going crazy, but he has reason to be. The King says to himself that "his deed [compared to his] most painted word" is hideous. The King admits to having committed a bad deed, so Hamlet's apparent madness clearly has reason. Is it "nobler in the mind to suffer...or to take arms against a sea of troubles?" Hamlet should not be faced with this dilemma. I do not think the King has a drop of compassionate blood in him. Not only has he killed Hamlet's dad, he is trying to make Hamlet seem crazy so that Hamlet cannot expose his action.
I think Polonius's idea at the end of Act 3 Scene 1 is going to get Hamlet in even more trouble. Since Hamlet is going to speak honestly with his mother, he might confess his suspicion about Claudius to her. I do not know if she knows Claudius killed King Hamlet or not, but she will probably tell Claudius either way. When this happens, Claudius will probably try to kill Hamlet or continue trying to make Hamlet seem crazy.
I do not understand why Hamlet got all angry with Ophelia. She greets Hamlet with a kind, "How does your Honor for this many a day?" He somehow talks himself into becoming angry with her, telling her she "[nicknames] God's creatures and [makes] [her] wantonness [her] ignorance." The way Hamlet treats Ophelia, who he supposedly used to love, makes me think that he really is going crazy. Maybe he is still just mad about the murder of his father, but it should not make him lash out at someone who is being nice to him.
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