ipl-logo

Hamlet Love Character Analysis

757 Words4 Pages

What does this character love the most? If what the character loves changes, explain this as well.
What Hamlet loves the most in Hamlet is Ophelia despite it constantly being questioned. He presents this on a few occasions; while talking to Ophelia, Hamlet tells her “I did love you” (III.i.125). Hamlet brings to go on and talk about how much her and how beautiful she was. He then tells her he doesn’t love her, but it can be assumed that he said so because Hamlet knew they were being watched by Pulonious, asking Ophelia where her father was. Hamlet has shown many instances where he would fake an act just to confuse others. Another instance is when he quotes “never doubt I love” (II.ii.127). He tells her despite all the false things happening around them, his love for her was a genuine. Hamlet says this as a confirmation; he’s clearly aware of how …show more content…

Hamlet quotes he is “revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck” (III.i.126-127) when talking to Ophelia. He acknowledges his own ambition for revenge and is even able to admit to to, claiming that King Hamlet’s passing was constantly on his thoughts. His actions and intentions in the play all lead up to one thing: getting revenge on Claudius. Not only did Claudius murder him, he also stole Hamlet’s rightful position as king. Another example is during Hamlet confrontation with the ghost when he says “wings as swift, As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge” (I.iv.35-37). Eagerly, Hamlet describes how he wants the ghost to tell him his story so he can kill King Hamlet’s murderer faster than people fall in love; the ghost is even speaks of how aspiring he is. This helps convey how yearning and anxious Hamlet is for getting revenge; his main goal and the climax of the book is him killing Claudius. Based on Hamlet and his actions throughout the book, his intent and objective is retribution for his

Show More
Related
1066 Words | 5 Pages

Hamlet's soul desire was to kill his uncle Claudius, to avenge his father's death(Acts 1-5). Hamlet’s desire for revenge starts out a just pure anger, but as his desire grows he dips into a state of madness (Acts 1-5). Hamlet really goes mad in the drama when he kills Polonius (Act 4 scene 3-4). Hamlet's attempts to avenge his father's death plays out in many stalemates until the end. The final scene in the drama has many of the main characters meeting their untimely deaths and we see Hamlet's plan to kill his uncle finally occur(Act 5 scene 2).

Read More
525 Words | 3 Pages

Even the way Hamlet treats all the characters throughout the play has to do with revenge and what he needs to do to get revenge. Hamlet's thoughts of revenge are first provoked by his father's ghost, who reveals himself to have been killed by his brother Claudius. This revelation moves Hamlet to vengeance. In his monologue, Hamlet Uses the literary stylistic device of excavation to express his first impulse for revenge. For example, in Act1, Scene V, he yells, "Oh, villains, villains, laughing, damn villains!" , one can smile, smile, and become a villain.

Read More
948 Words | 4 Pages

All of Hamlet’s comments towards Ophelia suggest that he feels betrayed. Hamlet and Ophelia showed each other true love but both were mad after their fathers’ deaths. Hamlet was acting mad to have revenge while Ophelia was truly mad. During Ophelia’s funeral, Hamlet stated “I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum”, expressing his true feelings towards her. Ophelia’s betrayal and lies to Hamlet in Act 3 deeply hurt his feelings causing Hamlet to hate

Read More
746 Words | 3 Pages

The quote relates to the rest of the play as Shakespeare intends to show us how revenge can impede purposeful, logical, action. As well as how one may say something but do something different. That the spoken version of one is diminished by what they actually do. Hamlet often acts abrasively and Claudius is conscious of his evils but is still blinded by his greed. All characters

Read More
571 Words | 3 Pages

Without a clue, every person changes throughout their life. Thinking allows the manipulation of the mind and a person’s internal self. In the play Hamlet, William Shakespeare utilizes allusion and rhetorical questions to portray Hamlet’s change from doubt to a well-defined and bold prince. He demonstrates that some people might change their values as time passes on due to the pressures present in their life. From the very start of the play, Shakespeare employs allusion in Hamlet’s soliloquys to demonstrate the change in Hamlet’s confidence throughout the play.

Read More
1234 Words | 5 Pages

Not all people respond with hate and revenge, some people let themselves get walked over but not hamlet. Hamlet does not respond to injustice too kindly. He wants revenge for his father's death, wants to set things right, help out whoever is in charge of people receiving karma by taking things into his own hands. His main goal in the novel is to seek revenge on his father's death, this started when he was visited by the ghost of the old king. The ghost said to him “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” the ghost of the old king wanted Hamlet to seek revenge on claudius for his ‘unnatural” murder of the kind.

Read More
905 Words | 4 Pages

In Act III, scene i of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, readers will come upon Ophelia’s soliloquy. After Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have failed to find a reason as to why Hamlet is acting in a peculiar and mad way, Claudius is persuaded by Polonius that the reason for Hamlet’s madness is the broken romance between Hamlet and Ophelia. To prove this, Claudius and Polonius plan to spy on Ophelia’s meeting with Hamlet. During their conversation, Hamlet denies ever having loved her and curses her. Ophelia is left fretting over his sanity.

Read More
806 Words | 4 Pages

All along hamlet did love Ophelia but he was just afraid to show that he did love her because he was afraid that he would get hurt. On the other hand, Hamlet could have also hidden his love to protect Ophelia from getting hurt from Claudius for the revenge they both wanted on each other. For instance when hamlet first tell Ophelia that he did love her but then changes with saying that he didn't he loved her because he knew that their conversation was being

Read More
734 Words | 3 Pages

As if what Hamlet was living was not extreme enough, the ghost of his father begins to appear to demand revenge for his death. Hamlet found out through his father’s goth that he was murdered by Hamlet’s uncle. It is very difficult to imagen the level of pain, anger, and desire of revenge after losing both parents under so bizarre circumstances. The evil actions of the uncle to take control of the throne, I have no doubt,

Read More
809 Words | 4 Pages

Despite all the reasons throughout the play to show that Hamlet did not in fact love Ophelia, I believe he may have loved her in some sense. Hamlet may or may not have been hopelessly in love with Ophelia but he definitely felt some sort of love for her. Evidence of his love for her is shown massively by how he responds to learning of about her unfortunate death. In Act V, it is revealed that Ophelia had drowned herself, later in the act, Hamlet discovers the truth.

Read More
88 Words | 1 Pages

Love is a very strong feeling and it 's portrayed in many ways. In Hamlet, Ophelia, the daughter of Polonius, has fallen for The young Prince Hamlet. In the play, Hamlet confuses us in the beginning because we think he’s just using her for pleasure, and not that he actually has feelings for her. But at the end of the story, we see a whole other side to the story. We see how much he actually loves her and not that he was using her for his own needs.

Read More
586 Words | 3 Pages

When Hamlet’s father returns to Denmark as a ghost, he tells Hamlet that Claudius murdered him. Hamlet listens closely, and when his father tells him to take revenge for his death he says “Haste me to know ’t, that I, with wings as swift, as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge.” This shows Hamlet is eager to take revenge for his father’s death. He becomes obsessed, trying to avenge his father’s death. This causes him to inadvertently kill Polonius, an innocent victim.

Read More
1056 Words | 5 Pages

Hamlet surely thought that his mother Gertrude dearly loved his father Old King Hamlet, now he may feel like his mother never loved his father. This may result in why he feels like he may not love Ophelia. We are also aware that Hamlet has trouble with his own happiness and this probably reflects on the way we feels towards people mostly women. Hamlet thinks that the reason real love does not exist is because of the female gender. Hamlet blames both his mother Gertrude and Ophelia for portraying men as monsters.

Read More
569 Words | 3 Pages

In the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, there are many different motifs that are used to express the author’s message or ideas. The motif of revenge is used all throughout the play. Revenge plays a major part in the play because it seems like everyone is trying to get it in some form. In the very beginning of the play, Hamlet’s thirst for revenge is created by the ghost of his recently deceased father.

Read More
880 Words | 4 Pages

Through the entirety of the play “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, the characters were overcome with the need for revenge as the outcome of many deaths. Therefore, no one was happy through “Hamlet” and it resulted in a tragedy. The character Hamlet played a big role in turning towards revenge and never would classify himself as being happy. Hamlet displays positive and negative behavior throughout the play. Hamlet exhibits strengths and weaknesses as well, although his weaknesses of over-thinking, bitterness, and his inability to accept the death of his father overshadow his strengths.

Read More

More about Hamlet Love Character Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document