Feigned madness a term used in popular culture to describe the assumption of a mental condition or illness by a person for purposes of evasion or deceit.
Feigned madness in popular culture
Such an act can also be used to divert suspicion, perhaps in advance of an act of revenge. Revenge (also vengeance, retribution, or vendetta amongst others consists primarily of retaliation against a person or group in response Examples of this are Shakespeare's Hamlet, who feigns madness in order to speak freely, Lucius Junius Brutus, who feigned madness until the time when he was able to drive the people to insurrection, and David, who feigned madness in order to escape from King Achish. William Shakespeare ( baptised Hamlet is a Tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601 Lucius Junius Brutus (or Lucius Iunius Brutus) was the founder of the Roman Republic and traditionally one of the first Consuls in 509 BC David, Arabic: داوود or داود dawud, "beloved" was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible Achish is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for two Philistine rulers of Gath. In all of these examples, the act of feigning madness reduces the perceived threat of the actor, in the eyes of his persecutors.
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