The betrayal that Hamlet feels towards his mother and the constant love he expresses for Ophelia does not explain he anxieties and angry. He angrily, tells her to join a nunnery. Such a comment could be seen insulting or saving her from what woman went through in that time period. Lets take a deeper look into the nunnery insult and everything else that follows.
How could a man so in love insult and curse that love. “If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. / Get thee to a nunnery, farewell./Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make them./To a nunnery, go, and quickly too./Farewell” (3.1,136-143).
How could a man so in love insult and curse that love. “If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. / Get thee to a nunnery, farewell./Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make them./To a nunnery, go, and quickly too./Farewell” (3.1,136-143).