How Does Hamlet Love Ophelia

Shakespeare’s play, hamlet is a tragedy reflecting on the forces of the supernatural on and off the stage and the influences of love and misery. In the tragedy of hamlet William Shakespeare focuses on the protagonists words and action to show that hamlet truly loved Ophelia and that he ever stopped loving her
Hamlets relationship with Ophelia is a complicated one with everything hamlet is going through and the various conflicts dealing with hamlet and his revenge for his father’s death. With the murder of his father’s death by the hands of his own uncle and the planning on killing the new king. It is difficult to show his love for Ophelia but none the less he did show it starting with when he told Ophelia “ I did love you” (111,1,125) but soon after he said that he doesn’t love her this maybe because hamlet suspected that they were being watched and heard. Hamlet did not want to show his love for Ophelia or that they …show more content…
This is shown and demonstrated when hamlet sent Ophelia a letter saying “never doubt I love” (11.1.127) and soon after Ophelia showed the letter to her father, Polonius who hamlet did not trust. When hamlet found out that Ophelia showed the letter to her father he knew that from then on he had to restrain his love from Ophelia herself as much as he can in order to protect her. Hamlets motivation for this is the fear of Claudius getting revenge on hamlet for interfering with Claudius plans to marry his mother and the killing of his father which hamlet wants to prove that Claudius is the one who killed the king in order to be the new king. But with all his attempts to protect Ophelia she committed suicide after the accidental killing of Polonius by the hands of hamlet himself. When hamlet find