Hamlet: Love Sick in Denmark
Prince Hamlet
Characters In Hamlet
Interpersonal Relationship
The play Hamlet, because it deals with issues inside the main character Hamlet's mind, for instance the dispute of Hamlet's love for Ophelia, is without question, one of the most complex plays known to mankind. Whether his love for Ophelia is true is often unclear throughout the play because Hamlet has times, like when she rejects him, where he treats Ophelia unkindly. Ophelia refusing his love on top of Prince Hamlet's duty of avenging his father's death leads Hamlet to have episodes of insanity. There are times where it is clear Hamlet had professed his love towards Ophelia. Although Hamlet's love for Ophelia is covered up with other thoughts on his mind, it is clear that he has true love for her when he gets upset over her rejection, when he looks as though he has gone crazy without her, and when he makes his affections known through speech and love letters.
Hamlet's way of handling a break up is to pretend he had not felt any love emotions towards Ophelia from the start. Without knowing that Hamlet's love for Ophelia is true, Polonius orders his daughter Ophelia to no longer be involved with Prince Hamlet in act 1, scene 3. When Hamlet first encounters Ophelia in act 3, scene 1, he is genuinely happy to see her when he says, " The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons / Be all my sins remeber"d" (III,I,90-91). Hamlet greets her with remarks of her beauty, and refers to her as a creature more heavenly than himself who might be easily forgiven of sins. "Be all my sins remember"d" is Hamlet's way of asking for forgiveness for not talking to her in a while. When she asks him how he is, he says, "I .
humbly thank you: well, well, well" (III,I,93). Hamlet thanks Ophelia for asking how he is, and is "well" for the first time in pages due to her presence. Ophelia then attempts to give Hamlet back all of his tokens of love that he has given her, which upsets Hamlet so much he denies ever giving them to her and insults her by saying, "Get thee to a nunnery.
Essays Related to Hamlet: Love Sick in Denmark
1. Hamlet
His love for Ophelia is unrequited. ... A state is in jeopardy, and to the Elizabethans that meant a sin-sick land is to be scourged." ... Hamlet should, " [let not] the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest." ... The bed they make love on is filthy and disgusting. ... The bed and the act of making love are the images of corruption in the quote. ...
2. Concepts of Corruption in Hamlet
Shakespeare uses the setting of dystopian Denmark to establish the basis of corruption in Hamlet as a result of the place and time – Denmark. In Act 1, Denmark is illustrated as an atmosphere of suspicion, this is seen in Act 1 Scene 2 as Francisco states that due to the metaphorical "bitter cold" nature of Denmark, he has become "sick at heart" leading to the representation of the state as an infectious root for corruption, further expounded as Marcellus illustrates with visual imagery "something is rotten in the state of Denmark.... " Shakespeare's us...
Old Norway, the uncle of Fortinbras, was unaware that his nephew was raising an army against Denmark. ... Polonius convinced that Hamlet has gone mad brings a letter from Hamlet to Ophelia in which Hamlet professes his love to her to his mother and father. Gertrude then asks Polonius how Ophelia received Hamlet's confessions of love, and Polonius tells them that at his request she ignored Hamlet. ... Ophelia, who I believe does love Hamlet, acts as if she has no feeling for Hamlet as requested by her father. ... I know I have on a few occasions called in sick to work while I was healthy b...
4. Claudius & hamlet
Claudius and Hamlet Claudius & Hamlet, would the inhumane and sick character please step forth. ... He labels Hamlet as a sick, cynical, and inhumane prince (Jump, 124) who vitiated a Denmark which was one of healthy and robust life, good-nature, humor, romantic strength, and welfare. ... Hamlet originally professes his love for Ophelia during his visitations to her closet, and through the love letter which he writes to her. ... Hamlet insults Laertes when he states, Forty thousand brothers/ Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum (V, i, 234-236). ... Hamlet is not the sick...
5. Hamlet's Disease
The poison with which Claudius kills King Hamlet spreads in a sense throughout the country, until "something is rotten in Denmark", as Marcellus notes (I.4.90). ... Midnight strikes and Barnardo notes, subtly referring to the sentiment of Denmark, that "tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart" (I.1.8). ... Horatio believes that the vision of the haunting Ghost is a forewarning to Denmark, just as the pale, sick moon was to Rome an image of the ill events to come. ... To Laertes, Ophelia is a young, innocent bud and the canker is her love of Hamlet; since he cannot marry her, he could only brea...
6. Hamlet and Disease
While Hamlet is mad, he kills his love interest Ophelia's father, Polonius. ... At the end of act one scene four, as the ghost and Hamlet exit, officer Marcellus states that "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark (1.4.90)." ... He continues on, telling her that she left king Hamlet for a scumbag, Claudius, and comparing her love for Claudius to making love in a sweaty, greasy pigsty. ... The rotten state of Denmark reaches a final peak, until the last of the disease is killed off. ... Shakespear used similar types of imagery and words, such as "rank" and "sick" throughout Hamlet...
Gertrude: Cold Mother and Bad Wife Queen Gertrude, the queen of Denmark and widow of King Hamlet now is married to her brother in-law, Claudius. ... Queen Gertrude is a manipulative, sick, incestuous mother, who helps to kill her husband, emotionally abandons her son, Hamlet, and marries her former brother in-law, Claudius for the wrong reasons. ... She does this by falling in love with Claudius and collaborating with him to kill King Hamlet, Prince Hamlet's father. She did Claudius a favor by marrying him because he wanted to become King and rule Denmark. ... "Good Hamlet, ca...
8. Shakespeare's Good Times
In the opening scene of Hamlet Francisco says 'Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart (1.1.9). ... She was loved by many and was seen as a remarkable person. ... In Hamlet Act I, Scene I, Lines 120, Horatio says the moon Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. He compares the forthcoming downfall of Rome with the pending destruction of Denmark. He takes natures happenings to be a sign of future misfortunes for the state of Denmark. ...