Love is a strange emotion at any stage of life and comes in multiple different forms. Can love truly drive someone mad though? Polonius believed love could and reasoned that it caused Hamlet's antic disposition. Ophelia and Hamlet shared a strange relationship ending with both of them going mad. Ophelia's madness came from a love of her father while Hamlet forced himself into his madness. Hamlet truly loved Ophelia through his madness and tried to protect her from it. On the other hand, Ophelia's love for Hamlet was merely a crush and she was able to be swayed greatly by the opinions of others.
When Ophelia is first introduced, the main topic was Hamlet and how she needs to stay away from him so she won't be damaged by him. "For Hamlet …show more content…
Hamlet has decided to play mad in the previous soliloquy so who better to show madness to than your lover. By showing his madness to Ophelia first, it provided him with another reason for his madness and distracts from the true reason he is mad. At this point she's afraid of what became of him. She doesn’t know if it was caused by her not reciprocating his affections or something worse. Polonius gets his hopes up that Hamlet, a prince, is interested in his daughter. To comfort her he says, "This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings" (2.1.102-104). In the moment that phrase is comforting. Later she's used in a ploy to view the madness up …show more content…
He is willing to flirt with her and talk to her refusing to sit by his mother's side in favor of Ophelia. Shakespeare was known to add dirty jokes into his plays, whether they were comedies or tragedies. Hamlet exchanges dirty phrases with Ophelia. He thinks of "nothing" but nothing is a slang word for vagina. He also says to Ophelia "That's a fair thought to lie between a maids' legs" (3.2.121-122). There is a sexual attraction between the two of them. Where this could just be lust, they care deeply for each other. This attraction can be called love. Later Hamlet tells Ophelia "It would cost you a groaning to take mine off edge" (3.2.255-256). He directly says that he desires to have sexual relations with her out of each others love.
By act four, Polonius has been slain by Hamlet and from his death Ophelia has gone mad. Ophelia doesn’t know that Hamlet was the one that killed her father, but without him she feels as if she has nothing left. The state of grief that she is in made her depressed and truly mad unlike Hamlets fake madness. Her madness made her not want to stand up when she fell in the river. She had such a love for her father that she joined with him when she
When Ophelia is first introduced, the main topic was Hamlet and how she needs to stay away from him so she won't be damaged by him. "For Hamlet …show more content…
Hamlet has decided to play mad in the previous soliloquy so who better to show madness to than your lover. By showing his madness to Ophelia first, it provided him with another reason for his madness and distracts from the true reason he is mad. At this point she's afraid of what became of him. She doesn’t know if it was caused by her not reciprocating his affections or something worse. Polonius gets his hopes up that Hamlet, a prince, is interested in his daughter. To comfort her he says, "This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings" (2.1.102-104). In the moment that phrase is comforting. Later she's used in a ploy to view the madness up …show more content…
He is willing to flirt with her and talk to her refusing to sit by his mother's side in favor of Ophelia. Shakespeare was known to add dirty jokes into his plays, whether they were comedies or tragedies. Hamlet exchanges dirty phrases with Ophelia. He thinks of "nothing" but nothing is a slang word for vagina. He also says to Ophelia "That's a fair thought to lie between a maids' legs" (3.2.121-122). There is a sexual attraction between the two of them. Where this could just be lust, they care deeply for each other. This attraction can be called love. Later Hamlet tells Ophelia "It would cost you a groaning to take mine off edge" (3.2.255-256). He directly says that he desires to have sexual relations with her out of each others love.
By act four, Polonius has been slain by Hamlet and from his death Ophelia has gone mad. Ophelia doesn’t know that Hamlet was the one that killed her father, but without him she feels as if she has nothing left. The state of grief that she is in made her depressed and truly mad unlike Hamlets fake madness. Her madness made her not want to stand up when she fell in the river. She had such a love for her father that she joined with him when she