When Hamlet says, "Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," (2.2236-37), he assumes that Claudius has sent his friends to come talk to him. He is saying that Denmark is not a prison to them because they don't think of it that way. I somewhat agree with what he is saying.
When Hamlet says "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw" (2.2.330-31), he suggests that he is crazy and that he can recognize something truly dangerous, referring to Claudius as the hawk. I don't think he is really mad. I think that he is angry and depressed and exaggerating to make people think that he is actually mad.
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