All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players

In one of my anthropology classes this semester we read some of Peter Berger's ideas on world construction. Berger is a leading contemporary theorist in the anthropological world. Part of his world construction theory is that people create different worlds for themselves depending on the people they are with or the situation they are in. Multiple people creating worlds together, according to Berger is what creates society. In Hamlet the characters are acting, and creating worlds for themselves and for others to see. The whole "fake it until you make it" idea fits into this theory and play as well because by acting as one thing you will eventually become that thing. By pretending to have a virtue, one should eventually acquire that virtue. Hamlet knows his family and friends think he's crazy and starts acting on it, and eventually he becomes crazy. When the worlds we are creating become our reality they become just that, reality, and it's harder to change a world when it's our reality. People sometimes long for a  "clean slate" and want to move somewhere different because the world they've created and they worlds around them that have been created are too real. The society that has been created in Hamlet is full of sneaking, spying, and distrust, which leads to the destruction of their "society" via murder.