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spies, and takes everything Hamlet says seriously. �Ophelia says I
was the more deceived�[III.i.118]. After a while of this, including Hamlet yelling at her,
the death of her father Polonious by the hands of Hamlet, Ophelia goes insane. This is very
noticeable because she is constantly singing and her appearance is also more ragged and
dirty. She does not even notice her own brother, Laertes, when he returns from school.
Shortly after this, Ophelia is found, drown in the brook. Hamlet triggers Ophelia�s insanity
that then leads to her death.
While all of these tragic happenings are occurring relationships are also being torn
apart. Hamlets' relations with his mother Gertrude are severed. Hamlet believes his
mother is disgusting for marrying his father's brother, two months after his fathers' death.
Rightfully so because traditionally then when people were married their families became
considered blood related. So this action by his mother was thought to be incestuous ...

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