After Hamlet kills Polonious, Ophelia becomes insane eventually drowning herself and this becomes the initial crack in an already fragile vase. Hamlet is repeatedly throwing himself at Ophelia throughout the novel, for instance “Lady, Shall I lie in your lap” is one of the many times she avoids the advances of the promiscuous prince (III 2 113). Ophelia’s insanity tortures Hamlet even more than his conscious, her ramblings of lovers past such as “He is dead and gone” develop into lyrical daggers that penetrate his already damned sole (IV.5.30). Hamlet’s life starts to unravel with first the insanity of his love, then it t

Hamlet’s own insanity becomes a sign that he grows weary of fighting the truth, and is one of the many elements of Hamlet’s undoing. In the scene where the grave for Ophelia is being dug, Hamlet gloomily ponders the occupations of the proprietors of these skulls being harvested from the grave, “Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now … ?” (V.1.100-101). When Hamlet is in the graveyard the orders that Ophelia’s body must be “maimed” because she took her own life, and that it would be profane to give her a proper burial, this adds to the growing insanity that Hamlet is burdened with (V.i.242). His insanity that he once feigned became a reality and it had taken over his entire world, he became so consumed with hate for Claudius that it drove him to madness and there was no more reason to feign. Hamlet’s own Insanity is the next stage in his und

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