Hamlet and Ophelia's Madness

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…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