... Hamlets madness, that "I doubt it is no other but the main, His father's death, and our o"erhasty marriage" (lines 56-57) However Polonius swears blindly that it is a love for his daughter Ophelia. The Queen is convinced of her sons madness by Act 4 Scene 1 as she shows "Mad as the sea and the wind when both contend" (line 7) and also a bit later when she states " O"er whom his ... very likely madness- (line 25) Claudius is extremely mistrustful of hamlet in the beginning of Act 3 Scene 1 " Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so harshly all his days of ... . Old King Ham...

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