What I Think When I Think of Act III

Act III to me is where things really start to get heated. Hamlet starts acting rashly and recklessly. The question remains whether it is part of his act, or if he truly is crazy, or a little of both and to what extent of both. After watching the videos, Hamlet's apparent madness was well represented and seeing it visually helped me understand it better.I think that he is not insane, but that he is not acting cold-blooded either. Then again, he is cold-blooded enough to refrain from killing Claudius in prayer to deny him a passage into heaven.That shows both clarity of mind and deep-rooted hatred.The first drops of bloods are shed when Hamlet kills Polonius.  He is not broken up by this at all, despite Polonius being Ophelia's father.  I think his actions reflect that he is fed up with self-reflection and is ready to take matters into his own hands.  Hamlet finally speaks his mind to his mother about his thoughts about her recent marriage. The potency of his anger towards his mother is lost because suddenly she is convinced that he is mad because he sees his father's ghost and she does not.  Suddenly his words become the words of a madman rather than the words of reason.