"People are created and transformed into who they are through their life experiences. Even if we don't realize it, the people around us influence our every move. In many cases, the positive influences that come into our lives change us for the better and we become kind, confident and strong-minded people. In the case of Ophelia in Hamlet, however, only madness and pain come from her experiences mind and heart broken, both caused by her fighting love for Hamlet, brotherly love for Laertes, and obedience towards Polonius. Throughout the play, one can see how Ophelia slowly detaches herself from her experiences with the people closest to her life, Ophelia is the strongest the reader has ever seen in the play. The first time we see Ophelia with her brother Laertes, we can see the concern he has for her “For Hamlet, and the foolishness of his favor,/. Wait. Her lover kills her father; this is enough to drive most people crazy. In this scene, Ophelia uses nature as a tool for adaptation, referencing and giving flowers. “Nature is beautiful in love, and where it is beautiful/sends some precious example of itself/after the thing it loves.” Ophelia truly loses a part of herself when her father dies and her madness becomes visible. We can see Ophelia's love for Polonius as the trigger for her madness. “Polonius is a fool in the way he treats Ophelia, but there is no doubt about his paternal concern, even if at the same time it may be superimposed on ulterior interests. Ophelia's obvious heartbreak at his death... testifies to her adequacy as a parent. (Boyce) From what we have seen, Polonius may not have been a confidence-bearer or even a father figure, but Ophelia still loves him. Now that she has lost two loves and her only other family has been absent, Ophelia's mind can no longer take it and she, in her madness, is presumably sent to