This element created by Shakespeare helped the readers better understand the depth and mystery of their characters as they are indirectly compared and contrasted throughout the play. ... One major difference, though, is that the audience was never really sure of the trueness of Hamlet's feelings for Ophelia until the end of the play when he said "I lov'd Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum" (V, i, 277-279), where as Laertes' love for Ophelia was always there since the very beginning of the play when he was advising her agai...

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