FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Her love murdered her father
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Hamlet is sent to England
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Hamlet is murdered
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Her brother has returned from France
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet puts on the guise of insanity, but in reality he is sane all through the story. Ophelia, on the other hand, her sanity shatters suddenly and truly goes mad. She struggles with her fathers death and her lovers absence so much that she is driven insane and eventually commits suicide.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ophelia’s madness stems from her lack of identity and her feelings of helplessness regarding her own life. While the death of Hamlet’s father made him angry enough to want revenge, Ophelia internalized the death of her father as a loss of personal identity.
Detailed explanation-3: -When Hamlet accidentally kills Ophelia’s father, and she becomes mad, Gertrude tries to calm her. Also, Gertrude reports Ophelia’s death in one of the most lovely, poignant, poetic speeches in all of Shakespeare. She uses nature, water, and flower imagery to show how she is now free of the cruel human world.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet: Act 4, Scene 5 Summary. In Hamlet Act 4, Scene 5, Ophelia has lost her mind due to grief over her father’s death and Hamlet’s departure.