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There are many different versions of the story of Hamlet. Most, including Shakespeare’s, address the important issues of adultery, madness, and revenge in relation to Hamlet’s supposed love for Ophelia. Although Hamlet claims to love Ophelia, his crazed and ....

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.... hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, Ungartered, and down-gyvèd to his ankle, Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous and purport As if he had been loosèd out of hell To speak of horrors, he comes before me.” According to Ophelia, his apparent condition was one of distress. I thought this section interesting because although Hamlet supposedly loves Ophelia, and his act of going through her closet was out of his “love-madness” for her, it truly scares Ophelia and has the opposite affect on her than what Hamlet ultimately intended. Polonius declares that Hamlet suffers from “the very ecsta ....