HAMLET Shakespeare's work is full of melancholy, grief, and madness. The regularity of the emotional mishaps presented in Hamlet, not only allow his audience to sympathize with Hamlet, but also provide the difficulties needed to understand the tragedy of his wife Ophelia as well. Ophelia suffers at her lover's discretion because of decisions influenced by her weak social position. Hamlet provides his own self-torture and is the victim of sadness and grief. However, his madness is fake. Hamlet and Ophelia share a common connection: the loss of a parental figure. Hamlet loses his father as a result of a horrible murder, as does Ophelia. Her situation is worse because her lover murders her father and all of her hopes for her future as well. This is bad for her character and causes her sadness and grief to quickly turn to irretrievable madness. It is argued that Hamlet has the first reason to be hurt by Ophelia because she follows her father'!
             s warning about Hamlet's true intentions for their beginning love. In Act 3, scene 1, line 91, Hamlet begins with mean sarcasm towards her. "I humbly thank you, well, well, well," he says to Ophelia regarding her initial jesters. Hamlet hears the King and Polonius devising a plan to deduce his odd and grief-stricken behavior. Hamlet knows that this plan uses Ophelia as a tool. Because of this, it is hard for her to refuse without angering not only her busybody father but the conniving King as well. Hamlet readily refuses that he cared for her. He tells her and all of his uninvited listeners this at a dinner party. Some critics feel that Hamlet has a right to direct his anger to Ophelia because they feel that she is the one who repelled Hamlet. Others might argue that he repelled her. There is potential harm for Ophelia if she disobeys her father and her king. Furthermore, Ophelia isn't sure if Hamlet's attitude...