Hamlet

            
             The quote "Commit a crime, and the world is like glass" by Ralph Waldo Emerson best describes the play "Hamlet" because after Hamlet's crimes were committed the world around him started to become fragile and eventually shatters. .
             After Hamlet kills Polonious, Ophelia becomes insane eventually drowning herself and this becomes the initial crack in an already fragile vase. Hamlet is repeatedly throwing himself at Ophelia throughout the novel, for instance "Lady, Shall I lie in your lap" is one of the many times she avoids the advances of the promiscuous prince (III 2 113). Ophelia's insanity tortures Hamlet even more than his conscious, her ramblings of lovers past such as "He is dead and gone" develop into lyrical daggers that penetrate his already damned sole (IV.5.30). Hamlet's life starts to unravel with first the insanity of his love, then it takes a turn for the worse when the unimaginable befalls here tortured sole and she commits suicide in the river. Hamlet feels fully responsible for the death of Ophelia because without the Murder of Polonious she would not have become insane. Ultimately, had it not been for her insanity and depression caused by her Father's death Ophelia would not have commit suicide. Murdering Polonious was Hamlet's Crime and Ophelia's insanity was the initial sign that his world was falling apart.
             Hamlet's own insanity becomes a sign that he grows weary of fighting the truth, and is one of the many elements of Hamlet's undoing. In the scene where the grave for Ophelia is being dug, Hamlet gloomily ponders the occupations of the proprietors of these skulls being harvested from the grave, "Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now - (V.1.100-101). When Hamlet is in the graveyard the orders that Ophelia's body must be "maimed" because she took her own life, and that it would be profane to give her a proper burial, this adds to the growing insanity that Hamlet is burdened with (V.