In shakespeare's hamlet, what plot event causes ophelia's mental decline? king hamlet's ghostly visit hamlet's theatrical production polonius's violent death claudius's scheming against hamlet

The correct answer is Polonius's violent death.

In Hamlet, Ophelia already had a weakened mental state, which only deteriorated after her father was violently murdered by none other than her love, Hamlet. She was already drifting into madness as a result of Hamlet's aggressive behavior, but when he accidentally killed her father, Polonius, it only aggravated her mental state, causing her to ultimately kill herself.

Ophelia is not the only one with a demented state of mind - almost everyone's mental state declines, until they all die at the end of the play.

Polonius's violent death causes Ophelia's mental decline.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.