Paranoia In Hamlet

Lovesick puppies burden themselves and the people surrounding them. Love’s emptiness possesses one’s mind into manipulating and hurting the people around him. For instance, in Hamlet, Shakespeare portrays Hamlet as an empty soul who tries to revive his emptiness by accidentally burdening the people around him. Manipulated and broken, Ophelia, is being corrupted while Hamlet’s passion for revenge has increased. As Hamlet’s mentality worsens, Ophelia is dragged down into her own hole of insanity and paranoia.
Diagnosing someone of being “lovesick” has the side effects of extreme paranoia and lack of understanding. Hamlets persona increases throughout the story as he sees the ghost of King Hamlet. In the beginning of the play, readers are introduced to King Hamlet’s funeral and people’s reaction and sympathy towards his son. Hamlet is expressed as a depressed and anxious individual. He denies that his father died out of natural reasons but died on purpose. Hamlet states, “Thaw and resolve itself into a dew, or that the everlasting had not fixed his canon ‘gainst self slaughter! Oh God!” (1.1, 79). From …show more content…
Observing Hamlet’s mindless actions and rude encounters towards Gertrude, Claudius, and herself, Ophelia notices that Hamlet will never be the calm and intelligent male, whom he once was. After Hamlet denies his love for Ophelia, she states, “ I, of ladies most deject and wretched that sucked the honey of his musicked vows” ( 3.1 169-170). Hamlet’s rebellion and attitude proved Polonius and Ophelia that he wanted lust, over love, from Ophelia. Discovering the truth, Ophelia considers herself as a lifeless woman for blindly falling in love with Hamlet. Listening to Hamlet’s disturbing claim for his fraudulent love, Ophelia is slowly being pulled down into her own madness. While Hamlet’s behavior is becoming more aggressive, he is slowly corrupting Ophelia’s