Friday, November 21, 2008

Hamlet slept with Ophelia

I think that Hamlet and Ophelia have slept together. First off Hamlet has the guts to call Ophelia a whore. If he loved her at all before this point then he has some guts to be able call her that especially without proof. It is so much deeper from a woman's perspective to be called something as low as that. When Ophelia and Hamlet are talking in Act III Scene I, Ophelia tells Hamlet that he did honestly make her believe that he loved her. This could be taken in the sense that they slept together and also could bring the light why Hamlet thought he had the right to call Ophelia a Whore, because he himself has the proof. That would explain more why Hamlet in previous acts was calling Polonius a fishmonger and in this act tells Ophelia to go to a nunnery. Personally i think that Hamlet said these hurtful things so that Ophelia would believe that Hamlet no longer loves her and not have the slightest thought that he could be lying in order to save her from what lies ahead. If she thought that he might not be telling the entire truth of his feelings then she could think there was still hope and not break her own feelings off entirely. 

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