Analysis Of Ophelia's Mad Scene In Hamlet

Throughout the play “Hamlet”, Ophelia grows mad as a result of constant tragedies that she is afflicted with. Act 4, Scene 5 is knows as “Ophelia’s mad scene” because it is in this scene where suddenly begins to go mad. In the scene, she speaks about her father’s death and how he lays in the cold ground. As learned earlier in the play, Hamlet killed Ophelia’s father, Polonius, with the intention of killing his own Uncle. Instead he takes the life of one of the most important people in Ophelia’s life. Hamlet also promises Ophelia his hand in marriage and his utmost love, but she rethinks her relationship with him and asks for them to separate he states that he would have never married her because she went to bed with him. Ophelia is now alone …show more content…
“Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, to be your Valentine, Then up he rose, and donned his clothes, And duped the chamber door. Let in the maid that out a maid, Never departed more”. She had convinced herself that he truly loved her but he destroyed her hope towards him by hurting her with her lost virtue. After she told hamlet she didn’t want to continue the relationship, which caused him to insult her, she felt cheap and unwanted. Hamlet said, “Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.” in the quote he tells her that she is a whore for going to bed with him when she was a good girl, because now she isn’t. he says that “ he did love her once” which shows that he doesn’t love her anymore after he took her virginity. This was a reason too lead her to madness. Thus, after hamlet did not get his way that resulted to him hurting Ophelia that led to her madness from her anger towards his …show more content…
After losing the love of her life, her father to death, and her virtues he realizes she had lost almost everyone and everything in her life Ophelia complained to Gertrude. “He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, at his head a grass-green turf, at his heels a stone. Oh, ho!” which shows her sadness towards her fathers death, she had nothing left to live for. She didn’t even have her brother by her side, and when he came to take her fathers revenge she asked him to remember her, “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts”. Soon after these tragedies she died whilst picking some flowers from the top branch of a tree. “One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, so fast the follow your sister’s drowned, Laertes.” This proves that Ophelia has really died by drowning, people thought It was a suicide others thought it was just because of her heavy dress when she fell into the