Tenney L. Davis’ Sanity of Hamlet examines how Hamlet’s intellect overshadows his emotions and guides his decision making. Davis says, “The latter believes Hamlet shows the effect that of an over-balance of a contemplative faculty. “His thoughts and the images of his fancy, are far more vivid than his actual perceptions;” there is “a great enormous, intellectual activity and a proportionate aversion to real action consequent upon it” (Davis 629), showing that Hamlet’s intellect gives him the ability act on decisions at that moment like when he made his plan to act “mad.” Hamlet is a constant thinker when it comes to difficult situations. Even though he sometimes over thinks and stresses he still finds ways to prevail through difficulty through