In the end they're all a little bit crazy

“I lov’d Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not (with all their quantity of love) make up my sum.” (Hamlet: 5.1.270-273) But how is it that she turned this insane? That delicate and fragile girl, is now become madness itself. Now, I should be nicer, I don’t believe she is all crazy. For that little she is, she does have her reasons.  There was so much pressure on her at all times; she was in the head light just like me. For a young girl like her, it’s understandable that she eventually cracked. I’ve been rough on her, and maybe said things I shouldn’t have. I said once to her she should go into "Nunnery" (3.1.9) and I don’t like the idea of me running her, but I kept bringing her down and crushing her with my words. "I loved you not" (3.1.8)

“She must have known as well as either of them that Looed Hamlet was a prince out of her star.” (Seng 218) were Seng’s words about Ophelia, and how her status was next to mine. I don’t think that it should have mattered that much and I don’t think it did for her. Obviously she thought she loved me, and so did my mom, “I hoped thou shouldnst have been my Hamlet’s wife” (Hamlet: 5.1.240) So that Ophelia saw a future with me, it makes sense.

There is still sanity in her; I believe she is still good in her mind, so I don’t agree completely on what Peter J. Seng says. For Ophelia (…) Denmark has become a prison, and she is all alone at Elsinore. It is the realization of this (…) that destroys her sanity.” (Seng 218-129) I agree that Denmark was turning into a prison for her yes, with her brother away and she just lost her dad I knew it wasn’t easy. And for a while, the position she had with being torn between her dad, brother and me. Telling her not so see me again, she answered “I shall obey my Lord” (1.4.10) I believe this was a part of what eventually made her mind go lose. It tipped over the edge when her father died, killed by her lover, me. Her heart is broken and torn.  She is depressed and with that comes her crazy days, I guess all girls have them anyway.