Hamlet's anagnorisis is very important in this play, though it's evidence is completely fallible. Hamlet realizes that he must avenge his father's death after a ghost of his father showed up to him in his room and informed him of this. This seems too farfetched and almost stupid to act on this sole reason, however Hamlet does. Throughout the whole play he goes crazy trying to figure out how to frame Caludius and then exact his revenge. To many of us, this plan would be kind of crazy, which leads us to believe that if Hamlet decided to follow this plan before he went "mad" he must have been mad before when he came up with it.
However this isn't the only anagnorisis in this play. Claudius realizes Hamlet is on to him when he sees the mousetrap play that Hamlet puts on for him. After this moment, Claudius is constantly on to Hamlet and tries to block off his attempts at proving that he had in fact killed his own brother. These realizations help build the drama in the play and make for an interesting confounding plot.
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