Hamlet

Act 2, Sc. 1, lines 78-101: What are possible motives for Hamlet's behavior in lines 88-101?

Ophelia. He took me by the wrist and held me hard.

Then goes he to the length of all his arm,

And with his other hand thus o'er his brow

He falls to such perusal of my face

As he would draw it. Long stared he so.

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Hamlet is well into his plan of acting "crazy". He wants to look unbalanced or put on an "antic disposition", at the expense of Ophelia in this case, so he can carry out his rather convoluted plan to avenge his father's death.