Hamlet and Ophelia Shakespeare's Hamlet is a play about the quest for revenge and the tragedies that become of it. One of the tragedies in the play involves the relationship of Hamlet and Ophelia. While secretly plotting to avenge his father's death, Hamlet fakes insanity as a diversion from his ac...
When "his father's spirit was in arms," it was not a time for the son to be with his love. ... "Sweets to the sweet farewell [Scattering flowers] I hop'd thou should'st have been my Hamlet's wife I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not to have strew'd thy grave." ...
His feigned madness permitted Hamlet to express these emotions freely towards Ophelia: "...Get thee to a nunnery, / farewell. ... In these soliloquies Hamlet ponders the question of suicide and what the ramifications of it are: To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether "tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. ...
