Exploring the character of Gertrude She was married to the murdered King Hamlet (represented by the Ghost in the play) and has subsequently wed
Perhaps the most famous scene concerning Ophelia in the original play is when Hamlet angrily tells her, "Get thee to a nunnery!" In the film, the pair are genuinely in love and marry in secret.
Ophelia cares deeply for Hamlet but struggles to balance her relationship with him and her loyalty to her father and brother who do not want them to be together. In the end, the pressure Ophelia experiences leads her to insanity and her death by drowning.
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.
Why is Hamlet so cruel to Ophelia? 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 this point, Ophelia would be well aware of her pregnancy, and well aware that she would soon begin to show outward signs of it.
The Nunnery Scene
One moment he says 'I did love you once', the next 'I loved you not'. He goes on to insult Ophelia and tells her to go to a nunnery. He tells her that this will be the best place for her and, by being a nun, Ophelia won't have children and produce wicked men like his uncle.
However, in an earlier scene Hamlet learns that Ophelia betrayed him by luring him so that Polonius and Claudius could spy on him. His reaction shows a darker side of Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship. He tells her multiple times to get to a nunnery, implying that she is as worthless as a prostitute.
Background: Ophelia's syndrome is the association of Hodgkin's Lymphoma and memory loss, coined by Dr. Carr in 1982, while it's most remembered for the eponym in reminiscence of Shakespeare's character, Dr.
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.
Bidding his sister, Ophelia, farewell, he cautions her against falling in love with Hamlet, who is, according to Laertes, too far above her by birth to be able to love her honorably. Since Hamlet is responsible not only for his own feelings but for his position in the state, it may be impossible for him to marry her.
1.3 Polonius and Laertes tell Ophelia that Hamlet just wants to sleep with her, and that she should break up with him. He's out of her league. 1.3 Ophelia agrees when her father orders her to stop seeing Hamlet.
Rejected by Hamlet, Ophelia is now desolate at the loss of her father. She goes mad and drowns.
He has recently died but visits Hamlet as a ghost during the play. Polonius is a counsellor to the new king and queen. He is Ophelia and Laertes' father. Laertes is the only son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia.
Hamlet acts out against Ophelia as a result of her rejection and denounces all women, showing his insanity. Save your time! Hamlet exhibits his madness to Gertrude when he confronts her about her marriage to Claudius.
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).
Grief-stricken and outraged, Hamlet bursts upon the company, declaring in agonized fury his own love for Ophelia. He leaps into the grave and fights with Laertes, saying that “forty thousand brothers / Could not, with all their quantity of love, / make up my sum” (V.i.254–256).
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.
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.
Hamlet uses this phrase while speaking to Ophelia in order to emphasize his belief, inspired by his feigned madness or not, that marriage is an institution that needs to be abolished. He tells her that she should become a nun, never marry, and never have children.
Hamlet and Laertes both have feelings for Ophelia. Being her brother Laertes openly expresses throughout the whole play. He warns her to be wary of Hamlet's love. He warns her that Hamlet is only using her.
Hamlet shows his love for Ophelia when he confesses to her that he loves her, when he tells her to go to a nunnery to protect her, when he sends her the letter, and when he finds out that she has died. Although many could argue that Hamlet never loved Ophelia, he was just trying to throw everyone else off.
ii.). Hamlet's most mad-seeming outburst, against Ophelia, may be explained by the fact that Claudius and Polonius are spying on the conversation: if Hamlet suspects that he's being spied on, he may be acting more deranged than he really is for the benefit of his listeners.