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Hamlet and Ophelia
Title: Hamlet and Ophelia
Category: Literature / North American
Details: Words: 1315 | Pages: 5.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hamlet and Ophelia
The relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia being as unclear as it is, there are two points where there is no doubt:
1.Hamlet did at some time love Ophelia sincerely.
2.When at her grave he cries:
I loved Ophelia; forty thousand brothers
Could not with all their quantity of love,
Make up my sum,
He must have spoken sincerely. Furthermore we may take for granted that he uses past tense because she is dead and not …showed first 75 words of 1315 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1315 total…fallen on her at the end of the play: her father is dead, her brother is away, and the man she loves is away and mad. She goes mad but not in a horrible and horrifying way. In her madness Ophelia continues sweet and loveable.
Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself
She turns to favour and to prettiness.
We hear in her songs the undertones of sorrow but never agonized fear which makes madness dreadful.
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