Gertrude And Ophelia's Loyalty In Hamlet

When playing a card game, a player is dealt a hand and that player can decide to either keep that hand or discard it and wait for a better one. However, most of the time, a better hand doesn’t come by just waiting and hoping. Hamlet chooses to keep his hand even though the odds were stacked against him; he didn’t play the cards, he played his opponents. Hamlet chose his fate when he enacts revenge for his father’s murder. Even if others play a key role in determining who Hamlet was there is no character that forces Hamlet into doing anything. Hamlet has a final goal to get justice for his father but that can’t stop the resentment that feels toward Claudius, Gertrude and Ophelia, his obsession is a major flaw that takes away from his credibility …show more content…
We rely on someone or something to be there to support and to not abandon you like the one that you’re grieving. Hamlet was dependent on Ophelia not only because he loves her but because he saw a future with her. After Polonius chose to test fate and deny Ophelia’s access to Hamlet he feels the same resentment but maybe even deeper in his heart and soul. “Ha ha, are you Honest? My Lord? Are you fair? What means your lordship? That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit should no discourse to your beauty. Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce then with honesty? Ay, truly for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives proof. I did love you once” (III.I.142). Even if Ophelia was to apologize, there would be no way for Hamlet to forgive her. In his mind, she is a changes person and there is no healing a broken heart with someone that is broken as …show more content…
With all that he has experienced and suffered, any rational person would have feelings of giving up and ending the pain immediately. “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?” (III.i.57-61) Hamlet is contemplating his life and justifying it in his own mind whether it would be okay if he were to commit suicide. He strips it down to the simplest of terms because life, in essence, is simple. He cannot decide whether dying, which is just a sleep that ends all heart ache, or putting up with his misery will make him feel complete and somehow get closure for all the tragedy he has endured. Being that this is one of the most well-known lines of the play, this foreshadows that in the future, after Hamlet has avenged his father, he will commit suicide as a final act of destruction that his step father has initiated. When there is betrayal and death, only revenge and death may