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Love Between Two Human Vessels: Hamlet and Ophelia

       Love is found in many stories and plays throughout time. The play, "Hamlet", written by William Shakespeare demonstrates true love between Hamlet and Ophelia. Hamlet and Ophelia's love may be difficult to view at first but once you take a deeper look into the text you can see that it is a love pure and true. Hamlet demonstrates his love for Ophelia while in the foyer when he tells her that she must stay away from him. Hamlet specifically says, "I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thought to put them in... We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery" (III. i. 124-130). Hamlet is trying to protect Ophelia from his revenge against the king. He warns her that he is proud, revengeful, ambitious and with many offences to come. He wishes to protect her from the repercussions that may occur succeeding murder. He protects her due to his love for her. He then says to believe no man and go to nunnery because he loves her and although he cannot have her with another man because it may send him into jealousy. He would like to protect her chastity assuming she still obtains it and have her safe from other males of this era. Hamlet throughout this scene wishes for her to remain chaste and pure. He tells her not to believe him while he tells her he does not love her, and before he tells Ophelia that she is a slut and naive he apologizes for what he must do. Hamlet says, "The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remember'd" (III.i.89-90). He wishes for her to forgive her and wishes for her not to believe what he is about to say. Ophelia demonstrates her love for Hamlet in the next scene which occurs but a few hours later. In the proceeding scene Hamlet and Ophelia flirt incessantly and Ophelia demonstrates no prolonged irritation towards Hamlet. Hamlet and Ophelia have a deep connection due to their love and she forgave him instantly because she quickly understood what was going on. Ophelia says, "You are naught, you are naught. I'll mark the play" (III. ii. 140). Ophelia throughout the scene is flirting with Hamlet and is now calling him naughty. If Ophelia was still angry with him, which she would be had she not be in love, she would not flirt with him, especially in public. Hamlet and Ophelia demonstrate their love throughout the play, particularly when Hamlet apologizes while trying to protect her, and Ophelia with her forgiveness and how open and the sexual innuendoes of which she shares throughout the mousetrap play. Their love is evident and persists throughout the play which is demonstrated with Hamlets madness when he cannot see her and continues until her death which is caused by madness due to Hamlet. Their love has driven them both mad at one point or another and is persistent.

Comment upon Brady's Blog:

I concur with Brady Harkness, when he states that Hamlet would not go to such lengths to protect Ophelia if he did not love her. Brady has a clear argument and is very logical. He also comments that Hamlet would not have asked for forgiveness had it been irrelevant. I agree because Hamlet is the smartest character and a master of words. He would not bother to have asked for forgiveness within his soliloquy had he not truly meant it.