In order to reach the truth, Hamlet plans to act crazy and moving away from his sweetheart "Ophelia". " But come, Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself (As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on),"3 (Act1, Scene5, Page8,L170) He also asked a troupe of actors to play a scene similar to how Claudius killed Hamlet' father based on the story of his father's ghost. Bradly thought about the reason that made Hamlet planned to act crazy "His adoption of the pretence of madness may well have been due in part to fear of the reality; to an instinct of self-preservation, a fore-feeling that the pretence would enable him to give some utterance to the load that pressed on his heart and brain, and a fear that he would be unable altogether to repress such utterance.