In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a kind of madness eventually infects everyone, leading to an ending in which nearly all of the main characters are dead. Two of these crazed characters are Hamlet and Ophelia, who also share love for each other. But although their irrational behavior is often similar and their fate similar, one is truly mad while the other is not. Both Hamlet and Ophelia behave very strangely. Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, insults everyone around him. He tells Ophelia that he never loved her, calls her father a fishmonger, and in subtle ways calls her mother a whore and her new husband a murderer. And Hamlet himself is driven to acts of murder, from the inadvertent stabbing of Polonius to the plot that kills Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to the vengeful murder of his uncle the king. Ophelia appears at the castle singing and handing out imaginary flowers. It seems he doesn't even know his brother. Hamlet and Ophelia's behavior is a direct result of the murder of their fathers. They both love their fathers dearly and readily obey, even when their fathers' orders are repeated...