Hamlet's View Of Love Analysis

The play, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, presents a story about a young prince whose view of love changes due to the actions of both his mother and the woman he loved. Hamlet 's view of romantic love being a very important part of human relationship changes and is shown throughout the play. Due to the marriage between Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude, and his uncle, now known as King Claudius, has disgusted Hamlet and has permanently changed his opinion on how much romantic love matters in life. Hamlet, is now consumed by the outrageousness of his mother 's love for his uncle, and has denied ever loving Ophelia, even though he admitted to loving her at one point. Despite the fact, Hamlet is justified to feel disgust towards love due …show more content…
Ophelia on the other hand, reacts to her father’s death with utter madness and eventually drowns herself, further angering Laertes. En route to England, Hamlet is kidnapped by pirates, but is surprised by how nicely the pirates are treating him. The pirates return Hamlet to Denmark. Once Claudius finds out about Hamlet, he begins to plan the elimination of Hamlet: he arranges a fencing duel between Hamlet and Laertes. The trick is that the tip of Laertes sword is poisoned, and once he strike Hamlet; Hamlet will die due to the poison. If the first plan fails, Claudius poured poison into the cup of wine that was reserved for Hamlet. During the duel, Hamlet is offered his drink, but he declines, and instead Queen Gertrude drinks it and is poisoned. Since he was losing, Laertes striked Hamlet with the poisoned sword to ensure Hamlet’s death. Hamlet in anger took Laertes sword and stabbed him as well. The Queen finally dies, and screams that she has been poisoned and Laertes, now dying, admits of Claudius’ Treachery. Weakening, Hamlet stabs Claudius with the poisoned sword and forces him to drink the poisonous drink. After killing Claudius and avenging the death of his father, Hamlet ultimately