Melancholy, grief, and madness have enlarged the works of a great many playwrights,
and Shakespeare is not an exception. The mechanical regularities of such emotional
maladies as they are presented within Hamlet, not only allow his audience to sympathize
with the tragic prince Hamlet, but to provide the very complexities necessary in
understanding the tragedy of his, ironically similar, lady Ophelia as well. It is the poor
Ophelia who suffers at her lover's discretion because of decisions...
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