Does Hamlet REALLY REALLY love Ophelia? Shakespeare fans!?

Question

I'm seriously curious about it (-__-)?

I mean after reading the play....It's so weird

first he write her love notes

then dismisses them

tells her to go to a nunnery

says he loves her, takes it back

kills her father with kind of no regret

but when she dies, he is all I LOVE YOU NOOOO! and stuff

still I can help but wonder

Did he really truly love her?

let's have a discussion about this!!!!

what do you think?

Answer 1

Yes,  I think he does,  in way of wanting her protected from himself and what he is planning on doing.  He loves her more than life itself.  

BTW A nunnery was a term for a house of whores in the middle ages, remember Henry had ransacked all the true Convents and monestaries.  It was a common rumor in Shakespeares day that nuns opened up their convents as whorehouses.  Telling her "get thee to a nunnery" was insulting, terribly insulting. But he felt he had to save her from what was going on in his life.  He was devestated when she drowned herself.  

Answer 2

Yes he loved her. Hamlet was no different from the men today. He knew he needed to do something about his uncle and he knew he didn't need her to get involved. What he had planned could have gotten her in trouble as well. Explain, look what happened at the end of the play. They all were killed.Now, in his defense, he didn't know it was her father behind the curtain. And the not feel regret, well, if your mother just married your uncle and you just found out that your uncle killed your father, you wouldn't have time for regret either. His reaction to her drowning was love and lost. He loved her and lost her. and in her last days or hours, all she remembers is hamlet dismissing her time and time again. And he didn't want her to remember him that way.  

Answer 3

REALLY REALLY Love?  No.  We get the idea there might be something between Hamlet and Ophelia because both her brother and father WARN her against him. (He's not free to marry by choice)  But when do we ever see them actually share a caring moment, such as Romeo and Juliet?  

Hamlet apparently rushes into her room with his clothing undone (read into that what you will), and there's hints of sexual union in Ophelia's  'mad songs' or perhaps Hamlet's 'May I lay in you lap?" line.  "Did you think I meant country (****-try) matters?"  It's Ophelia's father that interprets Hamlets madness as love.  

With his mother married and in bed with his uncle after such a short time, Hamlet has to have to serious female issues. Perhaps he cared for Ophelia at one point, but when he senses shes being used against him (however unwittingly) he snaps.  Is this all women are capable of? Betrayal? Manipulation?  Weakness?  Get to a nunnery, no marriage ever.  For who?  He and Ophelia or his mother?  Where's this hate actually focused?  Is Hamlet even considering Ophelia?

Hamlet tends to have a public and a private face and in private, I'm not convinced he actually had time to develop an honest love for Ophelia, perhaps just a teenage one night stand, then he got wrapped up in his anger, revenge and madness, whether real or not.

Answer 4

i wrote a report about this in high school.

my opinion on the whole play: Hamlet was not crazy, he was acting.

OK OK *stop throwing things* I dont think Hamlet was crazy, he wanted everyone to think he was in order to prove that his uncle killed his father. When he said those things to her the first time he was acting, when he jumped in her grave protesting her death it was actually a break in his act but it was so outrageous that it seemed crazy cementing his act of insanity in the process. SO yes i think he really did love her.

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