Hamlet is a tortured soul. His father's ghost keeps visiting him and he learns that his uncle, Claudius, is the one who killed him. Claudius has now become king and married Hamlet's mother. Hamlet is bent of revenge, but it can be said that Hamlet was not crazy. He was a man driven by grief and revenge for the wrongs that were done to him.
When Ophelia commits suicide after her father's death, her brother, Laertes, comes and is angry and the king tells him that it was all Hamlet's fault. Laertes agrees to a sword fight with Hamlet and the king has dipped the tip of the sword with poison. He has also poisoned a goblet of wine in case Hamlet doesn't get cut by the sword. After Hamlet and Laertes are both cut by the sword, Laertes tells Hamlet the truth. He tells him that Claudius is the one behind the death of his mother and is the one who poisoned the sword. Hamlet rams the sword through Claudius and forces him to drink the poisoned wine, eventually killing him. Hamlet succumbs to the poison from the sword, but tells Horatio that he wants it to be known what really happened there. Horatio tells Fortinbras, the Norwegian prince, the whole story of Hamlet. Fortinbras orders that Hamlet be carried away in a manner fitting a fallen solider.
Hamlet is such a tragic story. Hamlet was a man bent on revenge on the wrongs done to the people he loved. He was not crazy, he was just a man that loved his family and wanted justice for them.
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