Not Hamlets Fault
...killing the wrong person, he can't be fully responsible for Polonius's death. After Hamlet realized that he had murdered the Kings advisor, not the king, he felt sorry for Polonius and sort of apologized. "thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell. I took thee for thy better. Take thy fortune. Thou find'st to be too busy in some danger." ( Act 3 scene 4, line 38) Everyone deals with death differently. Hamlet mourns, promising to get even. Gertrude starts new with a new husband to replace the old one. When Ophelia hears about her fathers death, she goes mad. That is how Ophelia deals with death. She turned crazy; acting insane like a mad woman. Soon she got to the point where she couldn't control her actions. As a result, she herself decided to end her life, to end the madness and pain. Ophelia's death was caused because of her fathers death. Because Hamlet was not fully responsible for the death of Polonius, he couldn't be responsible for the death of Ophelia. Hamlet loved Ophelia; he wouldn't deliberately hurt her like that. "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?" (Act 5 scene 1, line 282) Ophelia drowned herself. It was her decision to end her life. Not Hamlets. It wasn't Hamlets fault Ophelia deals with death in a dangerous way. Many say that Hamlet killed Gertrude. But that statement is false. Claudius killed Gertrude. He didn't originally intend to, he intended to kill Hamlet, but it didn't work out that way. Claudius dropped the pill in the cup, to poison it. To Hamlet's victory, Gertrude lifts the glass to drink. Claudius yells: "Gertrude, do not drink." ( Act 5 Scene 2, line 317 ) But she drinks anyway. It could be argued that Gertrude killed herself, that she could have known that the cup was deadly. But she had no reason to kill herself. Who would have thought a man would poison his stepson, and his nephew. To Gertrude the cup seemed safe, because she trusted her husband, a natural thing for a wife. Claudius could have jumped across the room and grabbed the cup from her. But instead he silently watched her die. He didn't want to embarrass himself and be called a traitor, in front of his kingdom. Being mortified would cause him more pain then losing his love. Therefore the death of Gert...