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  • Essay / Essay on the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia

    This last act of the play surely sums up the love that Hamlet had for Ophelia. Dramatically, Hamlet jumps into Ophelia's grave. Distraught with grief for her, Hamlet confronts his brother, Laertes, telling him that he loved her even more than a brother loves his sister. Hamlet shouts to Laertes: “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, constitute my sum” (Shakespeare, Act IV, Scene I, lines 285-287). Although it is too late for Ophelia to hear Hamlet's true feelings expressed again, this shows that Hamlet's love was not madness, but true affection. Pouring out his most sincere emotions, Hamlet says he loved her so much that he would do anything for her.