Laertes on the surface is protecting his sister from a romantic relationship with a brooding prince, however some modern audiences have interpreted this dialogue as Laertes not wanting his sister Ophelia to fall into the arms of Hamlet so he can have her to himself. ...

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She is unable to ease her pain from her father's death through even revenge, as it is Laertes' duty, unable to ask her brother not to kill the love of her life, and not to say, "Let come what comes, only I'll be revenged Most thoroughly for my father....

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