Relationship Between Hamlet And Ophelia

The most polarized affair in the English literature was Hamlet and Ophelia. Every affair has a big twist on it. Their love was deep yet hidden and it can be proven by facts throughout the story in many parts. The main parts are as follows: the affair itself, their break-up, and the graveyard. This is where the main problems and the truth is revealed. The father of Ophelia knew about the affair between Hamlet and Ophelia. Polonius, her father, said,” You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such perilous circumstance.” (Act 1.3) Polonius didn’t care of the transaction these two had going on and he wanted to put an end to it. In these times girls/women were green girls until marriage. If they didn’t, it wasn’t only their reputation ruined it …show more content…
She said,”My lord, I have remembrances of yours, that I have longed long to redeliver; I pray you, now receive them.” Hamlet seemed upset by her words and said,”No, not I; I never gave you aught.” He also stated during the breakup,”Get thee to a nunnery: Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant Knaves, all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.” (3.1) Hamlet had said all of this because he knew Ophelia’s father was watching them and he also felt betrayed by her. Following the harsh break-up, something else broke poor Ophelia’s heart. A critic, Georg Morris said,” There is nothing at all conclusive in the fact Hamlet’s manner to Ophelia is extremely free, not only in the affecting scene in which he cares her to a nunnery, but still more in their conversation during the play, when his jesting speeches, as he asks to be allowed to lay his hand in her lap, are more than equivocal, and in one case unequivocally loose.” Shawna Maki from McKendree University said,” Although Ophelia wants to believe Hamlet is true …show more content…
The first priest said,”Her obsequies have been as far enlarged as we have warrantise: her death was doubtful; And, but that great command o’ersways the order, She should in ground unsanctified have lodged. Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers, shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her; Yet here she is allow’d her virgin crants, her maiden strewments and bringing home of bell and burial.” (4.4) One of the graveyard men said,”The Sexton ironically deprecates the fact that the world looks with more leniency of aristocrats, than of their poorer and “even” or fellow Christians contains an allusion to what has been noted above: namely, the professed and actual equality of all Christians in the eyes of the church. Adding to their statements, a high school teacher said,” Ophelia is reputed to have drowned herself, so according to the church of time and country, She should not have a Christian burial because suicide is a mortal sin. At the graveyard where they were all gathered including Ophelia’s brother Laertes. Hamlet comes out of hiding behind a tree and dramatically says,” What is he who grief/ Bears such emphasis?” (5.1) Hamlet confessed that he loved Ophelia. He said,”I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum.” Hamlet used past tense because Ophelia was now dead, not to imply that he did once love her or no longer had love