Hamlet- Rtd

This is a powerful quote that is very valuable in this book, and can also be carried over to real life. People tend to get a little carried away when it comes to fame. It means that those who have great power (whether politicians, religious people or similar) are extra dangerous if they become corrupt or insane, because their influence will have greater consequences for the people around them. Because of this, they need to be watched with extra care. People with tons of power have gone completly mad before because they get so carried away in trying to get people to like them or trying to get to the top.

When people reach the top of the ranks in their country they must be watched because someone who posesses that much power can do some serious damage. Take for example Adolf Hitler, he reached the top of the ranks before going completely mad. Once he got there he killed tons and tons of people, simply because he could. Also take for example Fidel Castro, the communist leader of Cuba. Before 1976 Cuba was a normal Revolutionary government. Once Castro took over he went insane and started doing things that were bad for the country as a whole. George bush

Checks and Balances are kept on great ones by having everybody having their eyes open and always watching. In the United States their are people that are hired just to watch the president, and make sure that he does not go crazy. They always have cops out there to protect the great ones that way they make sure that if they do make a mistake that someone else doesn't pick up on it resulting in something bad happeneing.

All in all, no matter what the age, time era, person, etc. people tend to go mad when they become great, and they should not go unwatched. When people go unwatched they will get away with everything they can. That is like letting a kid loosein the candy store, and saying they can't get anything. It just won't happen.
Hamlet treat Ophelia harshly throughout the play. Hamlet accuses her of being unfaithful and deceptive. He accuses her (and all women) of being a "breeder of sinners" and orders Ophelia to a "nunnery" (3.1.9). Hamlet also says that if Ophelia were to marry, she'd turn her husband into a "monster" or, a cuckold (cuckolds were thought to have horns like monsters) because she would inevitably cheat on him (3.1.10). Ophelia is crushed by Hamlet's harsh behavior, especially when he says, "I loved you not" (3.1.8). She's also devastated that Hamlet, the man who once spoke to her with "words of so sweet breath" (3.1.4) seems to have lost his mind and turned on her:

And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
That sucked the honey of his music vows
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason […] out of tune and harsh (3.1.13).
, "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers, if you added all their love together, couldn't match mine" (Act 5).
Hamlet's madness begins as feigned, to distract from the fact that he is attempting to kill Claudius as revenge for Claudius killing Hamlet's father. He even tells Horatio and Marcellus not to be concerned if they see him acting strangely because he will be putting on an "antic disposition" (Act 1 Scene 5).

However, the farce of his madness can be questioned later as the play continues. Hamlet is under incredible stress and pressure, with his love interest Ophelia breaking up with him, his obsession with killing Claudius, his mother's hasty marriage to Claudius himself, and his madness seems more and more genuine. His blow-up at Ophelia in Act 3 Scene 1 is one such example. After first saying he did love her, he reverses and insists he did not, then orders her to "get thee to a nunnery," amongst other orders and insults. How much of this is just an act and how much is genuine madness is continually debated.

Other examples include Hamlet's irrational and hasty actions throughout the play, such as his murder of Polonius through his mother's bedroom curtain without even knowing who it was hiding there (Act 3 Scene 4).

By pretending to be mad, Hamlet can gain details about his father’s death, behave without question, and not be accountable for his actions. In other words, his fake insanity will be his excuse. Yet Hamlet is grief stricken and cannot control himself. He slips into further depression and considers his existence when he asks, “To be or not to be, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them…” (Act 3. Scene 1. lines 58-59). In this soliloquy Hamlet strongly considers suicide.
In the end, the insane Hamlet is unaware of the complete and utter chaos that he inflicts on himself and everyone he loves. Instead of controlling his antic disposition, it controls him resulting in tragedy and death.