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How Does Hamlet Encounter With Ophelia
In the Shakespearean play Hamlet, the death of King Hamlet caused many problems amongst the royal family. This death allowed Claudius to usurp King Hamlet’s throne and take Queen Gertrude’s hand in marriage. It also caused Hamlet to despise both his uncle and mother. The death of the king also caused Hamlet to undergo thoughts of suicide, moments of loneliness and self-doubt. As well as the death of Polonius caused Ophelia's insanity which leads to her unexplainable death.
Hamlet’s encounter with Ophelia, when Polonius and the king were concealed behind the tapestry, we must ask, If Hamlet was deliberately acting a part in this scene, I do doubt, the hatch and the disclose Will be some danger. Hamlet's words to Ophelia lacked a little especially
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First, in his conduct immediately after his first encounter with the ghost, he betrays such an excited state of mind as borders on insanity, and sometimes even passes over the border. Horatio is compelled to reprove him for his words. Indeed, even before Horatio and Marcellus had joined him, there is a trace of whimsicality, when Hamlet, musing on what his father has told him, pauses to write on his tablets what occurs to him as a clever epigram. “O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew” (Shakespeare Lines 129-130). It was also, in any case, foolish of Hamlet to attempt to make a jest of the whole transaction, when he could not help showing how agitated he was, not help to assure them that the apparition was honest.
To conclude, I believe Hamlet is not insane. He has all the traits that any son would have if one's’ father died. If there was suspicion of someone murdering his father, he did the right thing to investigate the

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