FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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She misses her brother
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She is mad with love
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Her father was murdered
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She received a head injury
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why does Ophelia go mad? Ophelia goes mad because her father, Polonius, whom she deeply loved, has been killed by Hamlet. In addition, Hamlet, whom she also loved, has cruelly rejected her.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ophelia was completely devastated over her father’s death, “He is dead, Gone to thy deathbed, He will never come again.” When she is introduced as being mad in the play in Act IV, scene 5, she makes many references to her father’s death through a song she sings.
Detailed explanation-3: -In confidence, Hamlet tells Horatio that he will pretend to be mad so that he may spy on his mother and uncle.
Detailed explanation-4: -Polonius echoes the request for help and is heard by Hamlet, who then mistakes the voice for Claudius’ and stabs through the arras and kills him. Polonius’s death at the hands of Hamlet causes Claudius to fear for his own life, Ophelia to go mad, and Laertes to seek revenge, which leads to the duel in the final act.
Detailed explanation-5: -First, her boyfriend dumps her, then he calls her vulgar names, and lastly, he kills her father. Just one of these traumatic events could make a character go mad, but the combination of the three justifies Ophelia’s madness. The use of these three tragic events in Ophelia’s life makes her madness reasonable.