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Hamlet tells his companions that he is likely to put on an "antic disposition" because he is planning a deliberate strategy in order to trick the others to think that he is going crazy. He wants the others to think that he is going insane because he needs others to think that he is not mentally stable in order to get close enough to kill Claudius.
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Hamlet is saying that what one thinks is what one believes to be true. The assumptions that underline Hamlet's response is Rosencrantz and Guildenstern thinking that Denmark is not a prison and Hamlet thinks that the king sent them so he is testing them. The second quote suggests that Hamlet is really just strategizing because he is not truly mad he is mad to everyone else but he is just acting and waiting to strike. Hamlet may seem mad and act crazy to everyone else but he knows that the insanity is all an act and to himself he has a keen eye and is as sane as can be. He is duping everyone by acting crazy.
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