How Does Hamlet Love Ophelia

In shakespeare’s Hamlet Ophelia has a stronger bond with laertes because he cares about her feelings. Their tight relationship is evident when laertes cautions “Fear it my dear sister, and keep you in the rear of your affection, out of the shot and danger of desire” (shakespeare act 1 scene 3). This shows they are close because laertes states that she should not just give herself out to hamlet. He gives her advice not to fall in love and to control her feelings with hamlet. Some people however feel that Ophelia has a stronger bond to Polonius because he cares about her dignity. It is true that their bond is strong when Polonius suggests to Ophelia “Tender yourself more dearly or - not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, running it thus- you’ll

The last proof I give to the fact that Hamlet does and has always loved Ophelia is when she dies, he says: “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum”. (5.1

In the play Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Ophelia, the daughter of Polonius and the love interest of Hamlet, is depicted as a young and beautiful woman who is innocent, virtuous, and loyal. Ophelia is the innocent victim in Hamlet and the specific attributes that she has lead to her tragic death. She is easily manipulated by her father and brother and she is torn between her love for Hamlet and her loyalty to her father and brother. Three situations in the play that show Ophelia is an innocent, virtuous, and loyal person are: 1) When Laertes warns Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet because he does not have good intentions and she agrees, 2) When Polonius denies Ophelia access to Hamlet’s letters, 3) When Claudius and Polonius use Ophelia to spy on Hamlet. These situations suggest that Ophelia is loyal, innocent, and virtuous, and due to these characteristics she had a tragic ending.

“All relationships have one law. Never let the one you love feel alone, especially when you're around” - Unknown. Hamlet has a different relationship with every character in the story but his connection with Ophelia is strange. Does he love her? Does he stop loving her? And did he ever even love her?.

According to Laertes, Hamlet could not possibly love Ophelia because his is a prince and Ophelia a mere maid. Hamlet is bound by his regency to love and marry a princess of equal rank and stature. In lines 30-33, Laertes preaches the importance of Ophelia's chastity:

Shakespeare’s Hamlet leaves its readers full of questions. Is Hamlet’s ghost seeking vengeance or is it an evil spirit there to soil the prince’s spirit? Does Hamlet really love Ophelia? Is Hamlet mad? These are just some of the various questions that the audience is left wondering even after the tragedy is over. For decades, students, analysts and critics have been trying to decode Shakespeare's drama but yet no solid answers have come to surface. Shakespeare leaves a lot of scenes without answers to what has happened and why. There are a lot of moments that leave one with many questions and no solutions. The uncertainty in the play is just one of the many reasons why Shakespeare’s production of Hamlet is well known and taught.

Love can make people do and say crazy things; the same is true within Hamlet especially in the cases of Gertrude and Ophelia. Love blinded Gertrude, Hamlet’s biological mother in some bizarre and skewed way, so much so that she becomes his aunt through marriage to her deceased husband’s, Hamlet’s father, brother, Claudius. Also making Hamlet’s biological uncle, his stepfather, weird. Ophelia’s great love for Hamlet and her father cost her, her sanity and eventually her life. This paper will include an analysis of how love negatively affected both Ophelia and Gertrude, and some critiques on the perspectives from the feminist audience.

William Shakespeare’s tragic play “Hamlet” holds many tragedies of loss, power and love. Throughout the play, the love story between Hamlet and Ophelia digresses and re-flames over and again as situations change and the story unfolds. As precarious as Hamlet and Ophelia’s love affair is at times, the affection and desire between the two is undeniably present throughout the play. Through life and in death, Hamlet’s love for Ophelia remains constant; beginning with their courtship, their lengthy separation as Hamlet tried to separate Ophelia from his murderous plans, and finally, ending with the unexpected death of Ophelia. Unfortunately for both, it was their love for each other that was their undoing.

When Laertes sees Hamlet, Laertes grabs him and they start fighting about who loved Ophelia more. Hamlet then tells Laertes that he “loved her! /Forty-thousand brothers could not equal the sum / of the love with all their love combined” (Act 5, Sn i, l 260/262). Hamlet was telling Laertes that he loved her more than anyone loved her. He then asks Laertes what he would do: “Woo’t weep? Woo’t fight? Woo’t fast? Woo’t tear thyself? Woo’t drink up eisel, eat a crocodile? (Act 5, Sn1, l 270). Here, Hamlet is asking Laertes what will he do to prove his love for Ophelia because what Hamlet would do to prove his love to her is anything. Hamlet also wants to be buried with Ophelia because life without her would mean nothing. This proves how much Hamlet truly loved Ophelia.

Love is a bond two people share connected by emotion. One of the key ideas in the play is that children pay the price of the wrongs committed by the previous generation. The conflict between Ophelia and hamlet resembles this idea. Ophelia, Polonius’ daughter, is a beautiful young woman whose passionate and loving nature leads to her own destruction. Ophelia and Hamlet have a forbidden love for one another.

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.

I have chosen to write about the character Ophelia, because in my opinion she’s a very interesting character and she takes a while to figure out. With that being said, she is a character that is very emotionally unstable, but doesn’t show it too much during the acts. She is a girl filled with love and care for all people, especially her dad who she obeys and follows every order he gives her, but also Hamlet, which is the man who she develops feelings for. The submissiveness for her dad has turned her more fragile because she’s never allowed to make her own decisions, she doesn’t even know what that’s like anymore. Ophelia is a pretty weak character in my opinion, because in the end of the play she chooses to give up everything when finding out that Hamlet doesn’t love her back and that her father is dead. She never chose to fight for Hamlet and never chose to try and live a life without a demanding father. Ophelia is from the beginning this proper, fine, young lady that cares and shows love for everyone, then goes to being emotional and confused and in the end depressed and weak. In addition she chooses not to really tell anyone about her feelings and thoughts, she still tries to be this proper and submissive lady that shouldn’t have problematic thoughts and emotions like these.

The character, Ophelia, in William Shakespeare s play, Hamlet, plays a very interesting and important role in the elaboration of the plot. There has been quite a discussion surround the character, Ophelia, in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. Some believe that she never delves in the realm of insanity. They believe that she just acts out, unhappy with her current life circumstances. However, this is not the case. After everything this woman deals within the play, she does indeed succumb to pure madness. At first, he starts in a healthy mind state. She’s in love with her boyfriend Hamlet, yet controlled by her father regarding their relationship. During the play, she encounters several troubling experiences involving Hamlet, which cause her to become distressed. Near the end, the death of her father leaves Ophelia mentally unstable and in a state of madness. Her madness will eventually lead her to death. Due to all the unfortunate events that take place, Ophelia gradually becomes mad, and in the end, passes away.

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, the state of Denmark became enrobed in an elusive veil of unrest after the late king’s mysterious death and the hasty remarriage of Queen Gertrude to the king’s brother Claudius. In the midst of the dramatic happenings, the king’s son Hamlet is left to navigate his way through the relational dynamic between Claudius, Gertrude, and Ophelia. The young woman by the name of Ophelia, was the daughter of the late king’s adviser and found herself to be caught in the middle of the surrounding world of deceit and avengement. As Ophelia was molded into the tumultuous game cultivated by those that were seemingly trying to protect her, she in turn was one that received the most accumulated hurt.

For example, Hamlet’s perception of his mother’s impureness affects his demeanor towards Ophelia. When Gertrude quickly gets over old Hamlet’s death and marries, Hamlet begins to perceive a woman's love as fleeting and unpredictable. Consequently, when Ophelia declines Hamlet’s affection, perhaps he relates his mother’s debauchery to Ophelia’s brief love for him.Therefore, Ophelia’s affection is seen as a manipulative lie like Hamlet views Gertrude’s loyalty towards his father. Although Ophelia declines Hamlet as a suitor, she does not “unpack her heart with words” “like a whore” to him (2.2.579). In fact, Ophelia genuinely cares for Hamlet and does not concern herself with other men when she turns him down. Instead, she stays committed to