Why Does Hamlet Treat Ophelia

To find this information I need to further explore Ophelia’s role in the play, how she is shown in art and literature, how this has changed over time and how do historians explain this. To do this I will need to look at a range of sources that show how historians and artists portray Ophelia, articles of how and why historians think that her representation has changed so dramatically over time and what people today think of

Hamlet appears to hate Ophelia by vituperating her and make her feel unloved, but in reality loves her. Hamlet says to Ophelia, "If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry:/ Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape/ Calumny. Get thee to a

The similar physical antics displayed by Hamlet and Ophelia throughout the play portray these characters as childlike and emotionally unstable. The antics displayed by Hamlet give us a better view of his true character, which is

Everyone told her she was in love with the idea of being in love. And it doesn’t help that her father keeps telling her that she is going to ruin her reputation and Hamlet doesn’t have anything to risk. There is always two sides of a story. With this one it’s either Hamlet loves Ophelia or he doesn’t. Due to Polonius’ point of view of their love, people start believing that Hamlet does not love Ophelia, but in reality he truly loves her and cares for her.

Hamlet is manipulating Ophelia by doing and saying certain things in front of her because he knows that she will tell her father, and her father will tell King Claudius. He is manipulating Ophelia like her father does, they do it

However, due to the conniving actions of his mother, Hamlet rejects Ophelia and his love for her and pushes her away, ultimately causing her death. While Hamlet’s love for Ophelia often takes backseat to his revenge plans, it is evident throughout the play that he truly does love her. His

Hamlet’s façade is meant to convince everyone that he is mad, yet in the end it does not end up helping him to enact his revenge. Instead it puts Ophelia into an emotional state that causes her to lose her mind, and consequently drives her to end her own life.

English Studies Text Production : Hamlet Oral Presentation Transcript Hamlet is a revenge tragedy that focuses on madness, which was a very popular element in many revenge tragedies at the time including The Spanish Tragedy, also featuring a protagonist who descends into madness as a result of his built-up desire for revenge. However in Hamlet the concept of madness is more accurately depicted through Ophelia, a secondary character opposed to Hamlet, the protagonist of the play. Whether Hamlet is truly mad or playing the role of an ‘antic disposition’ is a separate argument and we will be focusing on the madness of Ophelia, the love interest of Hamlet, and the daughter of Polonius.

Throughout the play Hamlet both verbally demeans and physically abuses Ophelia. When Ophelia approaches him; hoping to return his tokens of love, he lashes out angrily. He denies having ever given her the tokens and claims he “love[s] [her] not”. He proceeds to demean Ophelia and all women by denouncing them as manipulative

Hamlet at the beginning started quarreling with Ophelia about his feelings toward her. Even though this fact is true, we must consider

Hamlet, with all of its inspiring characters, has one that is the most static and one-dimensional. That character is Ophelia, who although wasn’t one of the most crucial characters in the plot, did in fact play a huge role in several of the themes and lessons conveyed in the play. Throughout the story she had countless opportunities to define herself as an individual and leave the commands of her father, Claudius, and Hamlet behind, however, she instead falls to her unfortunate death due to her depression over her father’s death and the killer being the man whom she loves. While she plays this seemingly basic role in the conflict of the story of Polonius’s crazy daughter, the underlying messages her character portrays are what are most

Ophelia is underappreciated as a human being and viewed as a sexual enticement for Hamlet. Hamlet fails to address the feelings of Ophelia, but instead refers to her as having “nothing” (Hamlet Act 3 Scene 2 line 119). This is shown in Act III Scene ii of Hamlet:

While Ophelia herself is arguably a minor role in the whole plot of Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet’s love is still one of the most debated Shakespearean topics. Critics worldwide ask themselves the question: “Does Hamlet truly love Ophelia? And if so, why does he feign indifference towards her?” The question of a madman’s authenticity towards love must take account of said madman’s mental state. Therefore, one can only answer this infamous question by doing an additional analysis of the traumas Hamlet experiences throughout Shakespeare. Hamlet does love Ophelia, but weakly and sporadically, and only as much as any traumatized young man preoccupied with revenge-murder could. In this essay, I will evaluate the literary criticism of Danielle Esposito’s “Hamlet’s love for Ophelia,” A.C. Bradley’s “Hamlet’s love for Ophelia,” and Joshua Rothman’s “Hamlet: A Love Story.”

Throughout the play Hamlet does not treat Ophelia well and sometimes even insults her. He had said many times “Get thee to a nunnery” (III.I). He would often say this throughout this conversation as another way to make her feel bad. That he was trying to hurt but still look as if he loved her to others. Also later when Ophelia talks about what happened she said “He took me by the wrist and held me hard” (II.I). That in the conversation between hamlet and Ophelia when Hamlet was not verbally hurting her, he would sometimes get physical. Hamlet would often use this as a way to show how insane he was getting. Also when Ophelia was talking to Polonius she said “And thrice his head thus waving up and down” (II.I). This is another example of when Hamlet do things to make himself seem more insane. Also he is using Ophelia again as a way to spread about himself that he wants. So Hamlet would verbally and sometimes physically hurt her to get her to do what he wants.

The fact that his behavior towards Ophelia is changing throughout the play is due to the variety of emotions Hamlet feels towards his mother and the circumstances in which she is found, such as seducing Ophelia due to the lust he feels towards Gertrude, or rejecting and berating her due to hatred of the fact that Gertrude married Claudius, which he considers a result of a weakness on the part of female’s nature (E.g.: “Frailty, thy name is woman!”; “Get thee to a