Hamlet's Love for Ophelia

In "No Fear Shakespeare Hamlet" Ophelia is just a innocent victim that acts on what people tell her to do and don’t respond to what she want. Hamlet and Ophelia's love was real and not a lust but she let people manipulate her. When you love somebody they will do whatever it takes to protect and support there loved one and Ophelia played victim of loving Hamlet.

The play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, looks at the issue of madness and how it effects the characters of the play. Madness can be looked at from very different perspectives, such as strong and uncontrollable emotions, a person’s desires, and also a persons mental stability. Throughout the play, the audience is questioning the sanity of the main character, Hamlet, as he goes on his quest for revenge. The people around him also show signs of madness, such as Ophelia and Claudius, but in different forms. Existentialist philosopher Friedrich Nietzche says, “There is always some madness in love. But there is also some reason in madness.” What Nietzche is saying is that when you are in love with someone or something, there is always a little

This all sets the stage for Hamlet’s mental state prior to learning that he was killed by somebody in his family. These themes of death and betrayal lead into the end of the first act when Hamlet is tasked by the ghost of his father to seek revenge against Claudius for what he did. Hamlet believes that he was “born to set it right” (1.5.190). The extremes of this line reveal that Hamlet believes that the whole reason for his existence is to avenge his father. This need for revenge drives Hamlet for the rest of the play. He wants justice for his father, but he also wants to punish Claudius for his murder and marrying his mother. He gives in to human nature when he starts striving to avenge his father’s death.

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, many arguments have been argued as to whether or not Hamlet is really in love with Ophelia. I believe that there is a lot of evidence arguing that Hamlet never loved Ophelia and that he was just using her. By the way he acts around Ophelia when he is alone with her, he shows that his feelings for her are true. Hamlet shows throughout the play that he is really in love with Ophelia.

His reason, however, is to end the threat of his own life. Once the king and queen realize this remedy they quickly act to use it by persuading Ophelia to talk to Hamlet. In this Scene, true madness comes into play. Once Ophelia meets Hamlet and speaks with him Hamlet realizes that his mother and stepfather are aware of this love and might use this to end his threat. Hamlet must end their thoughts of using Ophelia to rid him of his condition. To do this he must destroy all the current feelings Ophelia has for him and he does so very well, perhaps too well.

According to Kastan, “Hamlet is prevented from enacting his revenge by the discomforting ratios that his literary imitations generate” (4). He is also stopped from executing his revenge because of his inability to separate himself from his father, to be different from what generated him (Kastan 4). By this point, Hamlet is no longer caught between whether to avenge his father or not, it is that he no longer realizes whether he is doing this for his father or for himself. When Hamlet finally does kill Claudius, he does it to avenge not his father, but himself (Kastan 4). “Hamlet dies with no word of the father he has sworn to remember” writes David Scott Kastan, “The act he finally

When Hamlet’s father, the late king of Denmark, comes to him as a ghost and reveals he died at the hands of his brother, Claudius, he demands Hamlet “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” (1.4.23-25). Without hesitation, Hamlet agrees to avenge his father’s death, saying, “Haste me to know’t, that I with wings as swift / as meditation or the thoughts of love, / May sweep to my revenge” (1.5.29-31). He decides the proper form of justice is to kill Claudius, just as the king killed his own brother, though he has his own motives. Hamlet loathes Claudius for marrying his mother, and learning King Hamlet died at the hands of Claudius only provokes Hamlet more. As the play continues, Hamlet plots his revenge, and he deceives everyone with his apparent insanity. Hamlet eventually succeeds in his search for vengeance and justice, though it kills him as well. He

Leading up to the soliloquy, Hamlet wavers between avenging his father’s death or keeping Claudius alive. His final decision is “Rightly to be great; Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw; When honor’s at stake. How stand I then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep” (IV.4.104). Ultimately, Hamlet chooses upon the murder of Claudius, but he becomes overly ambitious in wanting to kill the King that Hamlet further leads himself to insanity. From the beginning, Hamlet holds his father dearly in his heart; to diminish his extreme pain of sorrow, he seeks relief through impractical thoughts, actions, and emotions to avenge his father’s death. In killing Claudius, for instance, Hamlet runs through him with

In Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, the honesty behind the romance between Prince Hamlet and Ophelia is debatable. “Did Hamlet really love her?” they ask. Well, the true question is “Why would one question a love that is so real?” It is true that in some instances, the actions that Hamlet partook in is enough to make someone wonder if he ever loved her, but all of Hamlet’s action were deeper than the surface that the audience saw. Do not just look at Hamlet’s action, but think of why Hamlet did the things that he did. As we all know, Hamlet was going through a depressive state at that point in his life. His father recently died, his mother married his uncle, and to make things worst he found out that his father was murdered by his uncle, Claudius.

Since the early scenes in the play, Hamlet has been determined to kill Claudius because Claudius murdered Hamlet’s father in order to become king of Denmark. His anger internally drives him to avenge his father’s death, which is portrayed in Act III Scene III when Hamlet says, “And so I am revenged... A villain kills my father; and for that/ I, his sole son, do this same villain send/To heaven” (Lines 77-80). As the play progresses, it is difficult for Hamlet to kill Claudius due to numerous obstacles that arise.

   When reading Shakespeare's Hamlet, one becomes involved with a number of relationships involving Hamlet (the tragic protagonist) and the main characters supporting the play. The characters involved include, but are not limited to, Hamlet (the ghost), former King of Denmark and deceased father to the protagonist; Horatio, friend to Hamlet; Gertrude, Queen of Denmark and mother to Hamlet; and Ophelia, daughter of Polonius and romantic interest to Hamlet. Although all of the relationships are complex, encompassing a wide range of varying emotions as the plot advances, there is a recurring theme of love threaded throughout the play. This theme of love takes on a number of faces which we may observe through the

   In Hamlet, we are introduced to the complexities of a man who is struggling to murder his uncle while trying to understand his mother's motives. His inner turmoil has left him emotionally unavailable and completely disenchanted with humanity in general.

In the play Hamlet William Shakespeare illustrates a complex relationship between Ophelia and Hamlet on how conflict can alter one’s perception. Throughout the play Shakespeare uses imagery and selective diction to convey the complicated relationship for example when Hamlet displays hints of compassion to Ophelia and then follows with “we will have no more marriage:”(3.1.138).

Receiving constant rejection does not make a person stronger, but allows them to reject other people. After being rejected multiple of times by Ophelia, Hamlet finally has enough and unleashes his frustration. Once Ophelia presents the letters he gave her, he denies creating them. Hamlet states, “No, not I. I never gave you aught.” (3.1. 98). Hamlet’s rejection allowed him to reject Ophelia and his love for her. Although he does love her, he couldn’t let Ophelia distract him from getting his revenge. Hamlet separates himself away from his family and friends and harrasses Ophelia by naming her vulgar comments.

Firstly, Hamlet spends the entire play seeking revenge against Claudius who he believes is the one responsible for his father's death. Claudius murdered King Hamlet to steal the throne, when Hamlet realizes this he wants to kill Claudius. Hamlet states that he will kill Claudius because he murdered his father, "And so I am revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, d this same villain send to heaven;"(3.4. 161). Hamlet explains that since he is his father’s only son he must kill Claudius. Hamlet’s need for revenge is caused by duty towards his father and states that as his son he must avenge his father by killing the villain who murdered him. Hamlet hides his emotions towards his father’s death and instead focuses all his energy on