Love is something that everyone desires, but once love is corrupted with revenge and hatred it becomes nothing but lust. Hamlet was so consumed in revenge that he ended up killing people who cared for him. In the play Hamlet, Laertes felt that Hamlet never loved Ophelia and only wanted sex from her. This was one of the reasons why Laertes hated Hamlet. Laertes also believed that Hamlet would only marry Ophelia just to become king and not because he truly loved Ophelia. Claudius also thought the same way Laertes did, that Hamlet would never want to marry Ophelia and that Hamlet only wanted her for sexual pleasures. Claudius felt that Hamlet was using Ophelia to make him believe the reason for his insanity was because Ophelia wouldn’t allow
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Once Hamlet found out from a ghost, who appeared as his father, that Claudius was the one who sneaked into his room while Hamlet’s father was taking a nap and put poison into his ear, causing his death, then he truly knew that he had a strong hatred for Claudius. Francis X. Giaccone said in his article about Hamlet, “You are true to yourself even now. I suppose you are set in delivering another one of your jeremiads” (Giaccone 1), meaning that Hamlet thinks that everything he does is right and everything else that doesn’t measure up to his standards are completely wrong. The word Jeremiad in a quote refer to Hamlet’s soliloquy (“To Be or Not to Be”) about his problems and regrets that he encountered in the play. Ever since the conversation Hamlet had with the ghost he had his mind set on revenge against Claudius. Hamlet started losing trust in the people who cared for him the most, so he could get his revenge for his father. Hamlet lost himself without knowing he was lost: “You are my melancholy self. You’ve come into the world when the time was out of joint. Essex has been executed; Pembroke banished. Southampton imprisoned. My friends destroyed, and I am alone in an unfriendly world” (Giaccone 1). Meanwhile, Claudius has no remorse to the people he had killed, not even for his own brother who was king before him. Claudius let power consume him to the point he would do …show more content…
Hamlet just had feelings for her. Simply because Hamlet said to others that he loved her, and that he loved her after she died, doesn’t mean that he truly loved Ophelia. Hamlet could possibly be saying that he loves her only because she passed away and was his way of saying farewell. Since Hamlet was an only child and had parents who were the King and Queen, he barely got any affection when he was little. This is possibly why he had troubles communicating his feelings to someone he cared about such as Ophelia. For example, Arthur Palmer Hudson said, “Outraged by this (to him) inexplicable hostility to the cherished guest, the Baron at his “only child” with mingled anger and tenderness.” (Hudson
Once Hamlet found out from a ghost, who appeared as his father, that Claudius was the one who sneaked into his room while Hamlet’s father was taking a nap and put poison into his ear, causing his death, then he truly knew that he had a strong hatred for Claudius. Francis X. Giaccone said in his article about Hamlet, “You are true to yourself even now. I suppose you are set in delivering another one of your jeremiads” (Giaccone 1), meaning that Hamlet thinks that everything he does is right and everything else that doesn’t measure up to his standards are completely wrong. The word Jeremiad in a quote refer to Hamlet’s soliloquy (“To Be or Not to Be”) about his problems and regrets that he encountered in the play. Ever since the conversation Hamlet had with the ghost he had his mind set on revenge against Claudius. Hamlet started losing trust in the people who cared for him the most, so he could get his revenge for his father. Hamlet lost himself without knowing he was lost: “You are my melancholy self. You’ve come into the world when the time was out of joint. Essex has been executed; Pembroke banished. Southampton imprisoned. My friends destroyed, and I am alone in an unfriendly world” (Giaccone 1). Meanwhile, Claudius has no remorse to the people he had killed, not even for his own brother who was king before him. Claudius let power consume him to the point he would do …show more content…
Hamlet just had feelings for her. Simply because Hamlet said to others that he loved her, and that he loved her after she died, doesn’t mean that he truly loved Ophelia. Hamlet could possibly be saying that he loves her only because she passed away and was his way of saying farewell. Since Hamlet was an only child and had parents who were the King and Queen, he barely got any affection when he was little. This is possibly why he had troubles communicating his feelings to someone he cared about such as Ophelia. For example, Arthur Palmer Hudson said, “Outraged by this (to him) inexplicable hostility to the cherished guest, the Baron at his “only child” with mingled anger and tenderness.” (Hudson