The Theme Of Love In William Shakespeare's Hamlet And Ophelia

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What is love? Love is the romantic attachment to another person. It is the warm butterflying feeling that lifts the spirit. An individual care more about that person than themselves. It is filled with compassion and appreciation. There multiple layers to love, but the most profound is true love. A true love is the individual that completes the other’s soul. They are one of a kind because they are the missing piece in one’s life. If apart from this person, there is no need to stay alive because the other half is then gone. Ophelia is Hamlet’s true and only love. Ophelia completes Hamlet and makes him happy. Additionally, Hamlet is Ophelia’s one true love. She will not go on in live without him. They are soul makes and complete one another. However, their love doesn’t persist. Hamlet loved Ophelia, but in the end, he is solely in love with himself.
Hamlet spent all his time with Ophelia. He was truly in love with her and Ophelia should “never doubt [his] love” (2.2.127). He would go to the ends of the earth to make
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Firstly, it is because of his mother, Gertrude. Hamlet is extremely appalled that his mother got married only “two months” (1.2.142) after the death of his father. It shows that Gertrude deceived and never loved Hamlet’s father since she didn’t even wear the “customary suits if solemn black” (1.2.81) long enough. This showed Hamlet that love is deceiving and that there was slight chance that Ophelia only loved him for his title, Prince of Denmark. Since his own mother continued to apart of the title king and queen, but just with a different king. Hamlet therefore, stopped believing in true love and turned stone cold to Ophelia. Even when Ophelia had gone mad, Hamlet didn’t care at all. Hamlet was too busy planning his revenge plan to worry about the mental state of his once true love. To Hamlet women were “breeders of sin” (3.1.132) and were disloyal. Therefore, Hamlet “loved [Ophelia] not”

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