" (III.I.94-130), which is the Elizabethan equivalent to a whorehouse. The fury Hamlet possessed for the fact of Ophelia not loving him causes him to portray an insane behaviour. .
Hamlet has fallen madly in love with Ophelia, and the love sickness in his heart caused an illness in his mind. In act 1, scene 3 Ophelia is warned by her brother and her father not to continue her relationship with Hamlet. To obey her father's wishes, Ophelia tells Hamlet that she is going to discontinue seeing him. Ophelia explains to her father Hamlet's reaction to her rejection in act 2, scene 1. Polonius concludes that, because of Ophelia's rejection, Hamlet had gone mad. He says, "Mad for thy love!" (II.I.86). Polonius suggested that Ophelia must tell the king of the cause of Hamlet's madness (his love for Ophelia) or he will get worse. Polonius says, "This must be known; which, being kept close, might move grief to hide thans hate to utter love" (II.I.120-121). Although Hamlet going insane can not prove he loves her; it is seen that the cause of his madness is over his love for Ophelia.
What better proof of Hamlet's love for Ophelia could one get than hearing the affectionate remarks which he himself made? Ophelia tells her father that Hamlet has told her of how he loves her. She says, "He hath, my lord, of late, made many tenders / of his affection to me" (I.III.99-100). Hamlet also reinforces this fact in act 3, scene 1, he says, " I did love you once"(III.I.98-103). This statement occurred when .
they were fighting over Ophelia returning his tokens of love. In act 2, scene 2 Polonius has Ophelia read, to the king and queen, the love letters which Hamlet sent her; Hamlet wrote in the letters what precious things reminded him of Ophelia. Polonius is trying to prove to the king that Prince Hamlet is madly in love with Ophelia by having these letters read. At the play, Hamlet's mother calls him over to sit with her, but he declines her request by saying, "No, good mother, here's metal more attractive" (III,II,107).
His love for Ophelia is unrequited. ... A state is in jeopardy, and to the Elizabethans that meant a sin-sick land is to be scourged." ... Hamlet should, " [let not] the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest." ... The bed they make love on is filthy and disgusting. ... The bed and the act of making love are the images of corruption in the quote. ...
Shakespeare uses the setting of dystopian Denmark to establish the basis of corruption in Hamlet as a result of the place and time – Denmark. In Act 1, Denmark is illustrated as an atmosphere of suspicion, this is seen in Act 1 Scene 2 as Francisco states that due to the metaphorical "bitter cold" nature of Denmark, he has become "sick at heart" leading to the representation of the state as an infectious root for corruption, further expounded as Marcellus illustrates with visual imagery "something is rotten in the state of Denmark.... " Shakespeare's us...
Old Norway, the uncle of Fortinbras, was unaware that his nephew was raising an army against Denmark. ... Polonius convinced that Hamlet has gone mad brings a letter from Hamlet to Ophelia in which Hamlet professes his love to her to his mother and father. Gertrude then asks Polonius how Ophelia received Hamlet's confessions of love, and Polonius tells them that at his request she ignored Hamlet. ... Ophelia, who I believe does love Hamlet, acts as if she has no feeling for Hamlet as requested by her father. ... I know I have on a few occasions called in sick to work while I was healthy b...
Claudius and Hamlet Claudius & Hamlet, would the inhumane and sick character please step forth. ... He labels Hamlet as a sick, cynical, and inhumane prince (Jump, 124) who vitiated a Denmark which was one of healthy and robust life, good-nature, humor, romantic strength, and welfare. ... Hamlet originally professes his love for Ophelia during his visitations to her closet, and through the love letter which he writes to her. ... Hamlet insults Laertes when he states, Forty thousand brothers/ Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ Make up my sum (V, i, 234-236). ... Hamlet is not the sick...
The poison with which Claudius kills King Hamlet spreads in a sense throughout the country, until "something is rotten in Denmark", as Marcellus notes (I.4.90). ... Midnight strikes and Barnardo notes, subtly referring to the sentiment of Denmark, that "tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart" (I.1.8). ... Horatio believes that the vision of the haunting Ghost is a forewarning to Denmark, just as the pale, sick moon was to Rome an image of the ill events to come. ... To Laertes, Ophelia is a young, innocent bud and the canker is her love of Hamlet; since he cannot marry her, he could only brea...
While Hamlet is mad, he kills his love interest Ophelia's father, Polonius. ... At the end of act one scene four, as the ghost and Hamlet exit, officer Marcellus states that "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark (1.4.90)." ... He continues on, telling her that she left king Hamlet for a scumbag, Claudius, and comparing her love for Claudius to making love in a sweaty, greasy pigsty. ... The rotten state of Denmark reaches a final peak, until the last of the disease is killed off. ... Shakespear used similar types of imagery and words, such as "rank" and "sick" throughout Hamlet...
Gertrude: Cold Mother and Bad Wife Queen Gertrude, the queen of Denmark and widow of King Hamlet now is married to her brother in-law, Claudius. ... Queen Gertrude is a manipulative, sick, incestuous mother, who helps to kill her husband, emotionally abandons her son, Hamlet, and marries her former brother in-law, Claudius for the wrong reasons. ... She does this by falling in love with Claudius and collaborating with him to kill King Hamlet, Prince Hamlet's father. She did Claudius a favor by marrying him because he wanted to become King and rule Denmark. ... "Good Hamlet, ca...
In the opening scene of Hamlet Francisco says 'Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart (1.1.9). ... She was loved by many and was seen as a remarkable person. ... In Hamlet Act I, Scene I, Lines 120, Horatio says the moon Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse. He compares the forthcoming downfall of Rome with the pending destruction of Denmark. He takes natures happenings to be a sign of future misfortunes for the state of Denmark. ...