Why Is Hamlet Guilty

I, Claudius, am not guilty. To begin, the state has improperly failed to disclose that the ghost Hamlet has been seeing is the reason Hamlet is accusing me of such horrors. This apparition is truly a bad omen. It’s wicked requests it asks Hamlet to fulfill are similar to the desires of Satan. Not only this, but Hamlet has used his conversations with the apparition as a way to cope with the death of his own father. Therefore, it is clear that the ghost is Hamlet’s pitiful attempt to grasp onto anything that will allow him to see his father again. Due to this, Hamlet will believe and listen to anything that these hallucinations tell him. It is clear that he has not been in a right state of man since his father... and my beloved brother has died.
She has explained the mental state that Hamlet is in. She stated that physicians, preachers and astrologers cite this fear and grief as the principal causes of mental disorder. In addition, my own dear friend Polonius provides an example of a first hand audience to Hamlet’s madness. He introduces the subject of Hamlet's madness with the words: My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. .... I will be brief. Your noble son is mad. Mad call I it, for to define true madness, What is't but to be nothing else but mad? (II. ii. 86-94) By the same token, Hamlet's real prison is of course more a matter of mental than physical space. A scholar, named Mark Rose, told me that Hamlet exclaimed to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams" (II.ii.258-60). This quote reveals Hamlet's madness forcing him to stay in Elsinore. In fact, it seems that he is here as a consequence of the ghost’s control over him. It has bound Hamlet, using his bad mental state, to