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Hamlet's Inability To Decipher Right From Wrong
There are many different versions of the story of Hamlet. Most, including Shakespeare’s, address the important issues of adultery, madness, and revenge in relation to Hamlet’s supposed love for Ophelia. Although Hamlet claims to love Ophelia, his crazed and sometimes violent acti ....
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.... the opposite affect on her than what Hamlet ultimately intended. Polonius declares that Hamlet suffers from “the very ecstasy of love”, yet his “love” has scared Ophelia from wanting him.
In Act II, scene ii, Polonius reads a love letter to the King, which Hamlet wrote to Ophelia. By doing so, Polonius hopes to convince the king that Hamlet is indeed mad with love for Ophelia.
“ ‘To the celestial and my soul’s idol, the most beautiful
Opheia’ – that’s an ill phrase, a vile phrase, ‘beautified’
is a vile phrase. But you shall hear—‘these in her excellent
white bosom, these’.”
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