Hamlet: response 1

I find Hamlet's decent into madness interesting. Though he plans this 'justifiable' murder of his uncle, he kills the wrong man, which I feel speaks to this madness. Not in that his intentions are misplaced (beside the whole murder is wrong thing) but in how he unintentionally strays from his original target (sort of like how his plan of fake madness seems to be falling away to true mental instability).  The calmness he seems to present post-murder of Polonius (such as ending act. 3 with "good night, mother") should be out of place considering that not only did he just kill someone, said someone was not even his intended victim. It seems to me that the two ideas of madness and murder seem to parallel each other while also playing into and effecting one another.