Abdo - Is Hamlet a Villain?

I want to bring attention to the idea that Hamlet's insanity parallels his transition from good to evil. The whole play is written to sympathize with Hamlet, in that most Hamlet's soliloquies exploit his motivations, contemplations and opinion-- only projecting one perspective of the story. I think that Hamlet challenges the audience, in that he forces us to question whether or not he is the hero or the villain. The audience is persuaded to point the finger at King Claudius and claim that he is the villain only because the perspective we are given suggests this.  But when we take the meaning of "villain" into account -- the person guilty of a crime or wickedness, whose evil action or motives are important to the plot -- we realize that Hamlet is the only one whose motives are blatantly presented, and those motives are not entirely honorable. Shakespeare oftentimes shows us the motives and perspective of his villain, as in Richard III, who needs to"prove" to be a villain. Unlike Richard, Hamlet isn't necessarily a character who aspires to be evil, or want to prove evil, but his actions and thoughts inspire evil.