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Did Hamlet Love Ophelia
“I did love you” (III.i.125) in saying, Hamlet, confessed that he did love Ophelia. In the play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, Hamlet denies the fact that he doesn’t love Ophelia throughout the play, seeing that Hamlet and Ophelia were being watched almost every time they talked, led him to say that he didn’t love her anymore. It has come about to be that maybe Hamlet said all those awful things to Ophelia because he was afraid Claudius would take revenge on Hamlet, which would mean Hamlet would be leaving Ophelia all alone. In this, Polonius tells Ophelia to stop seeing hamlet, as they had been spending a lot of time together “’Tis told me he hath very oft of late/ Given private time to you, and you yourself/ Have of your audience been most free and/ bounteous” (I.iii.98-102), Polonius only giving Ophelia his opinion to protect her, he tells his daughter that Hamlet’s out of her league, and Ophelia takes this advice and agrees to no longer see Hamlet. Polonius now portraying that Hamlet just wants her for her sex or virginity by saying …show more content…
Hamlet, was murdered by Claudius, his uncle, he has been watched by Claudius and Polonius, whom Ophelia’s father, due to his antic disposition. Hamlet’s downfall for his love for Ophelia then begins here: “I did love you,” (II.i.125). Where Hamlet discusses with Ophelia that he loved her once, but then he went on and said that he had never loved her. This could be because he knew they had been being watched by Claudius and Polonius, led him to deny his love for her by saying “I loved you not” (III.i.129), in which case, Hamlet’s just lying to Ophelia because he knows someone’s listening, he just wants to protect Ophelia, this way she doesn’t end up being the one who’s hurt in the end, even though she ends up being the hurt one in the
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