In Shakespeare 's masterpiece, the title character Hamlet had various drastic and dramatic events that happened in his life that greatly affected his sanity. These events are his father dying, seeing his father as a ghost, Ophelia shutting him out of her life, getting sent to England, and even Ophelia killing herself. Hamlet was not the only person that became insane during this play, his girlfriend Ophelia also became insane. Though at the beginning of the play Hamlet and Ophelia were fairly normal people, as the play progressed so did their insanity.
Hamlet’s life before his father 's death was near perfect and had a loving mother and father until Claudius came into the picture and killed his father. Very soon after King Hamlet’s death, Claudius and Queen Gertrude got married. The marriage made Hamlet doubt the loyalty of his mother to King Hamlet. He even thought that his mother may have been involved in the act of killing his father. When King Hamlet’s Ghost was talking to Hamlet he says, “But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown” (Shakespeare 1.5.43) in saying this he is telling Hamlet that the person that killed him was his uncle Claudius and this was the tipping point for Hamlet’s insanity. In addition to the talk with Hamlet’s father, he was bloodthirsty with revenge and full of rage.
Being full of rage and confusion the first person that Hamlet turns to was his girlfriend Ophelia. Hamlet came to Ophelia with “no