Shakespeare's most puzzling plays. Although the play has a concise story, it is filled

with many questions pertaining to different topics behind the story line. One question in

particular is did Hamlet really love Ophelia? This argument can be supported in both

directions, however I feel that Hamlet did love Ophelia. Support for this decision comes

from Hamlet's treatment towards Ophelia in Act 3, Scene 2, and at Ophelia's grave in

The play Hamlet is about the trials, and tribulations met by Prince Hamlet, as he tries to

seek revenge for his father's murder. Since, Hamlet discovers the murder of his father,

and the adultery and incest committed by his mother he retains a very bitter and

pessimistic view of the world. "That the Everlasting had not fixed His cannon 'gainst

self-slaughter ... how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this

world." (14 Act 1 Scene 2 Line 131). It is through his soliloquy's that the audience

learns the depths of Hamlet's depression. Hamlet not only regards the world with

pessimism, but he also has suicidal feelings. The main reason at this po

answer that angers him further, she lies that Polonius is at home.

opinion that he does this on one occasion during which he visits Ophelia. Ophelia later

then changes his statement to say that he had never loved her. To any reader who

to Ophelia for help. The reader can draw the conclusion that he loves her, and that she

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