5. Regarding Hamlet's dialogue with Ophelia Hamlet grows

angry and outraged. Several complex emotions come to

bear on him. What ignites his rage against her, and what

other issues might he be blaming on her?

Answer: Hamlet is projecting his anger at his mother onto Ophelia.

Explanation:

By the time Hamlet meets Ophelia in Act 3, Scene 1, he is already both irritated and sad. He has suffered a lot - his father has been murdered (by his uncle, as it turns out), and his mother also married his uncle shortly after his father's death. Hamlet is angry not only at his mother for this betrayal, but at the whole female gender. Women are, according to him, too naive (look at his speech in Act 1, Scene 2 in which he says "Frailty, thy name is woman!"). Ophelia is, therefore, just a victim that Hamlet directs his anger at.