A drama is a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage; also knoplay. In William Shakespeare’s, “Hamlet”, many questions arise on whether Ophelia really loves Hamlet. Love is having an intense feeling of deep affection felt for another person and it is thought that Ophelia felt just that. Throughout the play we see many hidden indicators of Ophelia’s feeling towards him concluding that Ophelia does really love Hamlet. In this essay, I will prove that Ophelia does love Hamlet by providing crucial evidence that supports my claim.
Even when Ophelia is at her state of insanity she still continues to love Hamlet. In Act Four, Scene Five Ophelia walks in to Queen Gertrude’s room and asks,
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Even when her own father, who was to be respected in the era of Hamlet, warned her about Young Hamlet she argued,“My Lord, he hath importuned me with love and honorable fashion” (1.4). Her brother and father tell her repeatedly of their suspicions that Hamlet is using her. Although she listens she continues to love Hamlet. Ophelia is portrayed as naive character with little experience of love. The only reason she wasn’t more open about her love was because “she was obedient to a father who was rash, intruding fool” (Bloom 219). Ophelia unlike her father who is treacherous, she is transparent about her feelings. We see again that she in fact loves him when she tells her father of all the gifts from Hamlet that she has kept even after their talk in the fourth scene. If Ophelia where to have no feelings for Hamlet there would be no reason to keep items that have no sentimental value to her. Although Ophelia is to be obedient to her father and cut all ties with Hamlet, she begins to be, in what they call in that day in age, rebellious due to