Answer: he acts frantic and chaotic
• What does Hamlet do to upset Ophelia?

Ophelia is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet. She is a young noblewoman of Denmark the daughter of Polonius sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet who due to Hamlet's actions ends up in a state of madness that ultimately leads to her drowning.

Hamlet arrives with Horatio and banters with one of them who unearths the skull of a jester whom Hamlet once knew Yorick. Ophelia's funeral procession approaches led by Laertes. Hamlet interrupts professing his own love and grief for Ophelia. He and Laertes grapple but the fight is …

She gives the example of Hamlet's advice to Ophelia "get thee to a nunnery" which is simultaneously a reference to a place of chastity and a slang term for a brothel reflecting Hamlet's confused feelings about female sexuality …

In act III scene I of Shakespeare's Hamlet wh ...

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