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Essay Archive - Hamlet: The Cause of Ophelia's Insanity
Hamlet: The Cause of Ophelia's Insanity
Shakespeare, through his intricate uses of symbolism and dramatic
irony, arranges a brilliantly detailed account of how Hamlet's mental
upheaval served as the driving force of Ophelia's swelling insanity and
imminent suicide. He floods the early acts with an impending sense of
confusion within Ophelia, for her feelings toward hamlet greatly contrast
those of her brother and father. Ophelia begins to willingly take heed of
her family's advice as the prince finds himself removed from a lucid
pattern of thought. However, because her feelings for him are g....
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