In the play "Hamlet," by William Shakespeare, greatness does not lie in certainty, but rather ambiguity. Shakespeare uses this method in many different situations throughout the play to grasp the audience's attention and build suspense. Hamlet's contemplation of life or death, Hamlet's antic disposition, and the uncertainty of the Ghost are some examples of how greatness is displayed in this play. To start, greatness is shown through the ambiguous character, Hamlet, when he has his doubts on life. In Hamlet's most famous soliloquy; "To be or not to be", he has suicidal thoughts throughout the time that he talks in his soliloquy. Hamlet believes the whole world is evil because of his Mother getting remarried just after the death of her husband, and the murder of his father by his own brother. This leaves him wondering if it is worth it to live because everyone is evil. Hamlet also relates Death to sleep in his soliloquy by saying "To die- to sleep", even the title of the soliloquy is a suicidal thought; "To be or not to be" or to live or not to live. Ambiguity is also shown when Hamlet considers suicide because there is no point on living a life of pain and misery, if you can just commit suicide according to him when he says"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them.". This leaves the audience wondering if Hamlet will commit suicide or choose to live and complete his task to get revenge for his fathers death. Secondly, greatness is shown through ambiguity in this play by Hamlet's "antic disposition". When Hamlet says "How strange or odd some'er I bear myself (as I perchance hereafter shall think meet to put on an antic disposition)" (1.5.190-192) he states that he will pretend to be a mad man but so he will not be punished when he murders the king. Hamlet takes this antic disposition so far that the audience and the characte