Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays that were filled with love, deceit, and murder. Throughout the five acts, we see how Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, changed dramatically after finding out about his fathers death. In act one; we see Hamlet grieving over the death along with his mother’s choice of remarriage. It was plain to see that Hamlet was torn up inside over this, but was it to the point where Hamlet himself went mad and killed many people or was it out cold-heartedness that made him spite others?
Later in the act, we see that Hamlet heard that a ghost of his late father was seen by Horatio and Marcellus, so he goes to see for himself. The ghost informs Hamlet that he was poisoned by King Claudius and that he should take revenge on him, “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder,” but not to judge the Queen for remarrying. After the visitation from the ghost, Hamlet had his mind set for killing his Uncle. During the duration of the play, Hamlet goes from being a noble prince to a man who proved mad. Throughout the play, readers see key evidence that proves that Hamlet is innocent for the death of Polonius by insanity. One reason suggests that the fact that after his father had been killed and his mother remarried, there was obvious tension.
Not only was the death of his father lurking over Hamlet’s shoulder and his mothers unfailing choice adding up to a new built up tension, but also because of his love for Ophelia. Ophelia was a women who represented pure innocence and honest, but for Hamlet that was exactly what he wasn’t. So with the tension built up from the forbidden love between Hamlet and Ophelia there was also the fact in Act II Scene I, Ophelia had an interaction with Hamlet. Ophelia said to her father Polonius, “as if he had been loosed out of hell, to speak of horrors-he comes before me,” which tells the readers that Ophelia was frightened by Hamlets motives “but I truly do fear it.”. After the confrontation between Hamlet and...