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...nce”(Gervinus 276). Hamlet and Ophelia have an interview. Hamlet breaks her heart by telling her that “He loves her too well to entangle her in the web of horrors from which he sees no escape for himself”(Hudson 212). Hamlet resigns his love for her and then leaves her. Hamlet’s madness, caused by the death of his father, abandons Ophelia to despair and insanity. From this, Ophelia becomes mad. She affects Hamlet in an irritable way by giving him back all of his gifts he gave to her. Ophelia believes that her final fate should strike Hamlet’s conscience as an “innocent sacrifice”(Gervinus 277). Hamlet’s punishment for leaving her is the death of the innocent(Ophelia). Ophelia commits suicide because she feels Hamlet has lost all interest in her. She cannot bear the lack of love from Hamlet and feels that she is left with a broken sadness. She ends her life feeling betrayed and unloved. On the other hand, Arthur F. Kinney believes that Ophelia killed herself to escape from Denmark. Before Ophelia became mad, she existed outside of the man’s use for her. Kinney states that she is not driven to her madness, but is freed by it by her father’s death. Ophelia’s madness affects all the other characters, but is not fully comprehended by all of them. “The madness incorporates and allows expression of the earlier pressures on her”(Kinney 42). Ophelia’s death frees Hamlet to love her and to achieve his own revenge for his father’s death. Her suicide completes her separation fr...