The Madness of Hamlet and Ophelia It was fascinating to look at how many characters in Shakespeare’s plays poked at the brink of insanity. It seems to me, the plays couldn’t have been tragedies if this didn’t happen. In the plays we read, important characters evolved into madness, the plot thickened, figures died, and the tragedy prevailed. It was really interesting to see how this series of events would be an ongoing …showed first 75 words of 1675 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1675 total…I can come up with is he is both. A genius tends to be insane and vice versa. With Ophelia, I was puzzled at first about why her condition became so extreme. Later, I realized why she became so fragile; Every man in her life was a force, leading her in a different direction. She had Polonius telling her to avoid Hamlet, Claudius telling her to converse with him, and Hamlet being selfish and malicious