Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Blissful love

Honestly, I do not think that Hamlet ever truly loved Ophelia. At times, he was probably thinking she good looking or this relationship has potential, but his actions do not reflect a genuine love. We see this in Hamlet's love letter:
" Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt that the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt love
O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers. I have not art to reckon
my groans. but that love thee best O most best, believe it. Adieu.
Thine evermore, most dear lady, whilst this machine is him Hamlet."

First, this letter has terrible poetic flow; it starts ourt good, but then it's almost like Hamlet says indirectly I really do not care that much about the letter so I just going to do an okay job rather than try to impress you, Ophelia. When he breaks rhyme scheme, I almost think that he saying you know what I really do not care that much about you and Hamlet says that he does not care about impressing Ophelia. That would be equivelant to a guy walking up to his girlfriend and saying yeah you look decent. This tells me that he really does not care about love, but rather just the experience of life. Essentially, Hamlet also uses the word "beautified" in one of his letters, and thus I would say that he could not find a word to describe Ophelia; so inturn, he decided he was to lazy to look for a word, and then he just made one up. This shows that Hamlet once again does not value the relationship with Ophelia because he does not put any effort into the relationship.

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