mlet murders Ophelias father, which totally destroys Ophelia. Ophelia is forced to commit suicide because she cant handle the destructive force of her fathers death. At Ophelias funeral, Hamlets says I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not make up my sum(Act 5 Sc 1 line 270) If Hamlet loved Ophelia so much, then why did he treat her so badly. Hamlet madness is used to cover up the hatred he had for Ophelia as well as for his mother. Hamlet treats his mother with no respect at all. He threatens her, and forces her to see give into his ways. In Act 3, Scene 4, line 73 Hamlet sits his mother down in her bed and tells her, This is your husband. Look now what follows A murderer and a villain. A slave that is not twentieth part of the tith Hamlet tells his mother that her husband Polonius is a murderer and that she should have not married him because he is no good. When Hamlet is telling his mother the bad things about her husband, he is not polite and sincere about it at all. He is literarily yelling and screaming at her. This rash behavior is not madness- it is Hamlet. This is one of the few occasions were Hamlet expresses his true feelings without the use of deception.Hamlet is filled with many falsehoods and deceptions. It seems like no one in Hamlet can express what their true motives are. Deceptive illusions are used frequently in Hamlet to provide protection from the destructive force of truth. All the characters are corrupt, are thus rely on deception to get what they want. The only non-corrupt characters in Hamlet seem to be Rosencrate, Guildenstern who; when asked their true intention, in Act 2 Sc 2 line 300 replied My lord, we were sent for by the King and Queen to discover your secrecy. When asked their true motive, the dumb fools revealed to Hamlet that the king and Queen sent to find out what was bothering Hamlet. With the exception of two characters, the theme of Appearance versus Reality is the fundamental basis f...
