In the aftermath of his father's murder, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives.
Ophelia is Polonius' daughter and Laertes' sister. Hamlet has been in love with her for a while before the play starts and has given her several gifts during their courtship until her father warns her away from him and tells her not to see him anymore. During the play, he treats her very badly.
Hamlet feels betrayed and irritated by his mother. He is upset because she married his late father's brother Claudius. Hamlet thinks that remarriage in such circumstances is unacceptable. Through Hamlet's disappointment with his mother, his anger is increased towards Claudius.
Another example of obsession in Hamlet is his love for Ophelia. Hamlet loved Ophelia so much that when she was in her grave Hamlet did not care for Laertes or the guards he wanted to be there for her and just wanted her to be happy.
Hamlet sees the Players as bringing life and vitality to the Royal Court that has become a “prison” for him. The Players are symbolic of Hamlet's position as they actors like him.
It is also revealing that one of Claudius's considerations in seeking to have Hamlet murdered in far-off England, rather than merely executing him in Denmark, is that he is beloved by the common people of Denmark—“loved of the distracted multitude,” as Claudius says (IV. iii. 4).
Hamlet, wondering who has died, notices that the funeral rites seem “maimed,” indicating that the dead man or woman took his or her own life (V.i.242). He and Horatio hide as the procession approaches the grave. As Ophelia is laid in the earth, Hamlet realizes it is she who has died.
Perhaps the most descriptive sexualization of Ophelia is when Gertrude describes her dead body as “mermaid-like” (4.7. 201) with “her clothes spread wide” (4.7. 200). Describing her clothes as “spread-wide” is especially suggestive, as to reference the act of removing clothing before sex.
People can stage Hamlet that way, but there is no evidence in the script that Ophelia is pregnant. The best evidence that she has had sex with Hamlet is the song she sings that ends: “Quoth she, 'Before you tumbled me, you promised me to wed. '
Gertrude and Claudius marry very quickly after the king's death, and Claudius becomes the ruler. Hamlet is distraught and suspicious. He professes his undying love to Ophelia, and they are secretly married. Soon afterward, he tells Ophelia that he plans to murder Claudius.
There is an implied incestuous relationship between Hamlet and his mother in this film's interpretation of the play. They kiss in such a way that implies more than filial love and he even briefly mimes sexual intercourse at one point.
The Ghost cites Gertrude's voracious lust as the cause of her swift marriage to his brother (the 'garbage' in this metaphor). Gertrude's sexual relationship with Claudius defines her character for both Hamlets, and taints the audience's perception of her as an intemperately lustful and self-indulgent individual.
In this reading, Hamlet is disgusted by his mother's "incestuous" relationship with Claudius while simultaneously fearful of killing him, as this would clear Hamlet's path to his mother's bed.
Hamlet is cruel to Ophelia because he has transferred his anger at Gertrude's marriage to Claudius onto Ophelia. In fact, Hamlet's words suggest that he transfers his rage and disgust for his mother onto all women.
As we have seen, both seem to have genuinely loved each other prior to Old Hamlet's death but after that stage, Hamlet loses his affection for her because of his mistrust towards women which was caused by his mother's haste remarriage as well as by Ophelia's rejection of Hamlet and her betrayal to him by allowing her ...
By the way he acted around Ophelia when he was alone with her, he showed that his feelings for her were true. Hamlet's actions throughout the play show that he was really in love with Ophelia. The audience can see that Hamlet really did love Ophelia when he told her, “I did love you” (Shakespeare III 125).
Ophelia is Polonius' daughter and Laertes' sister. She has been in a relationship with Hamlet. Claudius is the newly crowned King of Denmark and husband to Gertrude. He is Hamlet's uncle.
Some see Ophelia's death as an accident; others see it as a suicide resulting from the accumulation of a series of unfortunate events: her rejection by her boyfriend, her father's murder, and her possible pregnancy.
And yet, he knows that Ophelia is Polonius's daughter, and he knows that Polonius is Claudius's advisor. Therefore, manipulating her is the easiest way for him to vicariously manipulate Claudius.
For the Elizabethans, Hamlet was the prototype of melancholy male madness, associated with intellectual and imaginative genius; but Ophelia's affliction was erotomania, or love-madness.
Analyzes how ophelia's confession that she has lost her virginity comes in her state of madness. she is talking about the promises hamlet made to her before she had sex with him. Analyzes how ophelia's father, polonius, claudius, and gertrude question her character. hamlet knows the truth and speaks of it bluntly.
Ophelia's drowning is the consummate representation of an eternal retreat into the feminine, trading an individual voice for eternal silence in union with feminine essence. In turn, her death expresses the danger of reducing an individual to his or her gender and disregarding the voice of the marginalized.
In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Ophelia is the love interest of Hamlet, who is the prince of Denmark.
Ophelia's final words are addressed to either Hamlet, or her father, or even herself and her lost innocence: “And will a not come again? / No, no, he is dead, / Go to thy death-bed, / He never will come again. / … / God a mercy on his soul. And of all Christian souls. God buy you.” Next, she drowns herself.
Hamlet, Ophelia's boyfriend, and Laertes, her brother, treat her much the same as her father. The other woman in the play is Hamlet's mother, Gertrude.