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2/5/2019

Daily Literary Quote
“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
Could not with their quantity of love
Make up the sum.”
- Hamlet

Journal Prompt
Do you think Hamlet truly loves Ophelia? Why or why not? Provide specific examples from the play so far.

42 Comments

Nutt

2/5/2019 10:02:51 am

I think Hamlet might have loved her at first. But with his suspicions of everyone in the castle I think he grew apart. Revenge for his father has consumed him almost entirely.

Aimee

2/5/2019 10:05:30 am

I think Hamlet probably loves Ophelia as much as he knows how, but when you are so obsessed with revenge, what’s important falls to the side.

Jennifer

2/5/2019 10:07:05 am

True dat homie. You can relate lol.

Nate

2/5/2019 10:07:39 am

You do like your revenge, aimee

Connor

2/5/2019 10:05:36 am

I think he does but he is trying to act like he doesn’t care that they broke up and play it cool, like when he is denying the gifts she gives back.

Brook

2/5/2019 10:05:50 am

I don’t think so because if he did then he wouldn’t be able to treat her how he does throughout the play.

Cherish

2/5/2019 10:07:51 am

I totally agree. If he truly did love her he wouldn’t treat her the way he does.

Sarah

2/5/2019 10:07:52 am

With everything going on it’s possible that he’s just to overwhelmed to think about anything but his uncle.

Kiana Farnworth

2/6/2019 10:08:51 am

I completely agree.

Robyn

2/5/2019 10:05:56 am

I think that he was in love with her at one point, but because of his pretending not to to prove her father wrong and his obsession with getting revenge, they grew apart.

Katelyn

2/5/2019 10:07:40 am

Agree, he was corrupted by his need for revenge it seems.

Jennifer

2/5/2019 10:05:56 am

He might love her in her own twisted way. Typically you don’t treat people like shit when you care about them or love them. I think their live begins to fade quickly because of his actions.

Robyn

2/5/2019 10:07:15 am

Maybe he was trying not to drag her into the mess by separating her from him and his family entirely?

Jennifer

2/5/2019 10:09:22 am

Maybe so but he didn’t have to be such a dick about it.🤷🏼‍♀️

Sarah

2/5/2019 10:09:47 am

I think that might play a part.

Aimee

2/5/2019 10:09:17 am

Yeah, some people really don’t know how to love.

Hailey Jo

2/5/2019 10:09:34 am

Agreed, you don’t treat someone you love like that.

Nick

2/5/2019 10:10:16 am

I agree.

Cherish

2/5/2019 10:06:05 am

I do not think he truly loves her. I say this because of all the suspicions he has about his uncle killing his father and possibly thinking that other people are involved. He may have truly loved her at first but I definitely don’t think he does now, especially with the way he treats her.

Brook

2/5/2019 10:06:29 am

I agree

Hailey Jo

2/5/2019 10:10:59 am

Agreed, the way he tests her is not love

Kayla

2/5/2019 10:12:09 am

True

Kiana Farnworth

2/6/2019 10:09:20 am

I agree completely.

Sarah

2/5/2019 10:06:06 am

I think he does love her. However his love isn’t as strong as his need for revenge against his uncle.

Cherish

2/5/2019 10:06:54 am

I agree with you to an extent. Revenge has definitely consumed most of his interest right now.

Katelyn

2/5/2019 10:09:12 am

He definitely wouldn’t hold this revenge process higher than his love for Ophelia if he did love her.

Brenna

2/5/2019 10:12:48 am

Maybe after he gets revenge he will try to make things right with Ophelia.

Nate

2/5/2019 10:06:37 am

No I don’t really think hamlet does. I wouldn’t tell someone I liked to “git to a nunnery” so I highly doubt he likes her

Connor

2/5/2019 10:07:33 am

Good point.

Aimee

2/5/2019 10:08:20 am

Maybe he still likes her even if she’s a ho ho.

Nick

2/5/2019 10:09:46 am

Nice response

Katelyn

2/5/2019 10:06:47 am

At the beginning of the play, I think he did. Then when it progressed Hamlet slowly started to fall out of love with her and doesn’t hold in as high regards as before. When he confronted her before the play, his mind was muddled with revenge and he didn’t hold those feelings anymore.

Brenna

2/5/2019 10:11:40 am

I think he’s still upset with his father’s death and doesn’t know how to control his emotions.

Hailey Jo

2/5/2019 10:06:58 am

I don’t believe he did love her. If Hamlet really loved Ophelia he wouldn’t be rude the treat her the way he does. Pushing and dragging her around in that scene.

Jennifer

2/5/2019 10:07:27 am

Agreed.

Saymen

2/5/2019 10:07:59 am

I don’t think he likes her that’s much because he tells her that she needs to got to the nunnery it’s show that he only wants to find his fathers killer.

Nick

2/5/2019 10:09:30 am

I think that he might have loved her at one point but doesn’t act like it anymore.

Nate

2/5/2019 10:11:01 am

Nice response.

Brenna

2/5/2019 10:09:41 am

I believe that Hamlet does love Ophelia. I think he’s being mean to her because he wants to focus on avenging his father. It did cause Polonius and Claudius to think that he was acting strange because of Ophelia and not other reasons. There was nothing in the play that makes me think that he is not in love, it’s just an act.

Kayla

2/5/2019 10:12:53 am

I’m a very twisted way

Kayla

2/5/2019 10:11:39 am

I don’t think he does. Especially after the way he treats her when he is trying to prove the king is guilty.

Kiana Farnworth

2/6/2019 10:08:09 am

I believe he did truly love Ophelia once, but if he still truly loved her he wouldn’t be able to put her through the things he is putting her through. He seemed truly heart broken when she tried to return the gifts, but if he still loved her he would not have treated her so poorly he would have grieved on his own and he would have been kind.

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