How Does Shakespeare Present Ophelia's Emotions In Hamlet

In Hamlet shakespeare uses the appeal to emotions, silaquee, constant repetition, and diction to make the reader feel bad for hamlet and to feel the constant betrayal in hamlet's life. Hamlet is being betrayed by his own family his uncle kills his father and takes his throne and then marries his mom. Hamlet is determined to avenge his father's death and shakespeare constantly makes that apparent through the things above. In life nobody has your back like you do. Hamlet is struggling with his own problems as well in which he no longer has anyone his own father has been killed by his uncle and hamlet feels this pain until he avenges his father's death.

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.

To find out the truth about the late king, Hamlet feigns his madness to fool the characters. Since his father has just passed away, everyone is thinking that he is going insane due to all the drama that is going on within the family. His mother getting married to his uncle, and on top of all that, his feelings for Ophelia have been rejected. In the beginning Hamlet seems to have crossed the line into madness to trick the kingdom to think he was crazy, when in reality he wanted to investigate the murder of his father, because the ghost of the king keeps appearing to him to reveal the truth. Another character who seems to show signs of madness is Ophelia.

   Michael Pennington in “Ophelia: Madness Her Only Safe Haven,” elucidates the character of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet:

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most famous work of tragedy. Throughout the play the title character, Hamlet, tends to seek revenge for his father’s death. Shakespeare achieved his work in Hamlet through his brilliant depiction of the hero’s struggle with two opposing forces that hunt Hamlet throughout the play: moral integrity and the need to avenge his father’s murder. When Hamlet sets his mind to revenge his fathers’ death, he is faced with many challenges that delay him from committing murder to his uncle Claudius, who killed Hamlets’ father, the former king. During this delay, he harms others with his actions by acting irrationally, threatening Gertrude, his mother, and by killing Polonius which led into the madness and death of Ophelia.

This act starts with the news of Polonius dying roaming around the castle and that it shocks King Claudius about this murder. With this news, he plans to send Hamlet to England immediately because of his madness and how scared he is about Hamlet. Along with this he send Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to get information about where the body is being hidden and Hamlet says that they won’t get anything from him. But before leaving for England, he is brought to the King to hear that it’s for his own safety. Even though, we all know that he is being sent there to be killed and Hamlet knows this as well. Now, we see Ophelia and how mad she has become after this tragedy about his father. She has lost the purpose to live and is dealing with so much grief in this moment. While Laertes comes back to avenge his father’s death but King Claudius tries to calm him down and mourn his loss. Lastly, we find out that Ophelia has drowned and that’s where this act ends.

To start, Hamlet shows his insanity through his blinding rage. While visiting his mother in her room to discuss his outrage with her marriage, Hamlet becomes destructive. He throws his mother around the room, grabbing her and screaming at her. All this commotion scares Gertrude, his mother, and causes her to scream out “What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? / Help, Ho!”(III.iv.23-33). Gertrude is so scared of her son and who he has become that she believes that he will kill her. This shows that Hamlet is delusional because he reaches a point in which he is threatening his mother, a woman who his fathers ghost warned him about mistreating. Hamlets rage takes over his mind and does not allow him to think clearly.

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as these lines relate back to the development of Ophelia’s character, as well as play an important role in the plot of the play, and a major conflict that is portrayed.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a tragic play about murder, betrayal, revenge, madness, and moral corruption. It touches upon philosophical ideas such as existentialism and relativism. Prince Hamlet frequently questions the meaning of life and the degrading of morals as he agonizes over his father’s murder, his mother’s incestuous infidelity, and what he should or shouldn’t do about it. At first, he is just depressed; still mourning the loss of his father as his mother marries his uncle. After he learns about the treachery of his uncle and the adultery of his mother, his already negative countenance declines further. He struggles with the task of killing Claudius, feeling burdened about having been asked to find a solution to a situation that was

Hamlet’s character drastically develops over the first four acts of Hamlet, and his character development is most evident through the soliloquys he delivers throughout the play. The most character development can be seen from the first soliloquy, to the second, the third, the sixth, and the seventh and final soliloquy. Hamlet’s inner conflict with his thoughts and his actions are well analyzed in his soliloquys, as well as his struggles with life and death, and his very own existence. He begins the play wondering what purpose he has in life now that his father is dead and his mother has remarried to his uncle. After finding out foul play was involved in his father’s death, he is motivated by revenge. Finally, he wonders how he can enact his revenge while continuously overthinking and overanalyzing his actions.

In Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, the character Ophelia is very controversial due to the fact that Shakespeare places her as the focus inside the minds of all the men in her life such as Polonius, Laertes, and Hamlet. Although Ophelia may appear to just be a beautiful, weak girl, she has the ability to gain power and attention over all of the men in her life. Throughout the play, Ophelia does not have much of a voice while also being mistreated and emotionally abused by her boyfriend Hamlet. Although Ophelia does not express her opinions and emotions publicly, she propels the plot along by influencing major events. Ophelia’s weak, indecisive, and obedient personality allows her to progress the plot by Shakespeare making her the focus of the men in

“The observed and I, of ladies most deject and wretched, that sucked the honey of his music vows, now see that noble and most sovereign reason, like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh; that unmatched form and feature of blown youth blasted with ecstasy; o woe is me, to have seen what I have seen, see what I see!” (2671-2672). The general love and relationship that was administered between Prince Hamlet and Ophelia were not only complicated but problematic. Throughout the play, the reader gains a deeper insight into their overall involvement and what lead to the total turmoil of their love. Arguably, it might be perceived by the reader if Prince Hamlet even loved Ophelia or if she was only a part of his mind games. Furthermore, the heightened debate of their relationship can be strengthened either way by numerous opinions, but I believe far in Prince Hamlet’s twisted mind he cherished and loved Ophelia.

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

Hamlet often times exhibits signs of being in emotional state. It though to know when he is truly being real or living his lie as he seeks to avenge his father’s death. Claudius live for power went as for him to kill his brother to get to the throne. Because of his love for his father he has hatred towards his killer, Claudius. “A villain kills my father and for that I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven.