In the play “” by William Shakespeare, Prince uses many double meaning phrases to speak his mind to the audience and the other characters in the play. "I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw" (II.ii.387-8). This is a classic example of the "wild and whirling words" with which hopes to persuade people to believe that he is mad. These words, however, prove that beneath his "antic disposition," is very sane indeed. Beneath his strange choice of imagery involving points of the compass, the wea ....