... , we learn that Claudius murdered Hamlet's father - and then remarried his mother far too quickly. For Hamlet, and for the audience, his mother's behavior is coldly disconcerting; she shows no loyalty to her dead husband, and far too much base desire in her decision to remarry so quickly. Even more significant to Shakespeare's overall treatment of women is Ophelia, Hamlet's love ... is metaphorically doomed - but Hamlet is unaware of the damage she will cause. When Hamlet goes to his mother's chamber and kills Polonius, Ophelia's father, by accident, Shakespeare reveals Ophelia's true ch...

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... the King but his own demise as well. In Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Act 2, Scene 1, it is possible to view love as a destructive force in regards to Hamlet and Ophelia's relationship. Ophelia's loyalty and love for her family, namely her father, is potentially what is stopping her relationship with the young Prince. Shown in her dialogue between her and her father after she ... romantic relationships. Lawrence presents love as a destructive force through familial relationships as it is due to Gertrude's relationship with Walter, William and Paul that neither William nor Paul ever experience...

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