To What Extent Did Hamlet Love Ophelia

To get thy love or to not

Did hamlet love Ophelia? Was he forced to love her, because of their social status? It was made clear when Ophelia receives letters from hamlet saying “You may wonder if the stars are fire, You may wonder if the sun moves across the sky. You may wonder if the truth is a liar, But never wonder if I love, Oh, Ophelia, I’m bad at poetry. I can’t put my feelings into verse, but please believe I love you best, oh, best of all. Believe it. Yours forever, my dearest one, as long as I live—still chugging along, Hamlet.” (II, ii, 112) that he in fact does love her. He does not show every much affection until we get to the part where he directs the play “the Mousetrap”. In this scene we see how Hamlet goes “mad” or “crazy” and

For example, he says to her “It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edge.” (III, ii, 233). In this suttle line, he is talking about having an erect penis and wanting Ophelia to do something with it. He would have not said that if he at least did not like her. When Hamlet finds out that Ophelia has died in act 5, he starts to freak out and says, “What is he whose grief bears such an emphasis, whose phrase of sorrow conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I, Hamlet the Dane.” (VI, i, 238-242). He is extremely upset that Ophelia has passed away. He then jumps into the grave that is soon to bare Ophelia’s resting body, Hamlet and Laertes get into an argument and proceed to fight in the grave. Hamlet goes on to once again admit his love for Ophelia by saying “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?” (VI, i, 255-257) he also states “... Woo’t weep? Woo’t fight? Woo’t fast? Woo’t tear thyself? Woo’t drink up eisel, eat a crocodile? I’ll do’t. Dost thou come here to whine, to outface me with leaping in her grave? Be buried quick with her? - and so will I.””...I’ll rant as well as thou.” he saying that since Laeters is saying all these crazy things that Hamlet can say some as well, what Laertes is saying are just words. It takes action. (VI, i, 260-270). It is believe that Hamlet loved Ophelia. Even though, for part of this play he treated her poorly, it could have been to make Ophelia forget about Hamlet and move on without the possibility of getting hurt. She ironically ends up dying in the