Examples Of Injustice In Shakespeare's Hamlet

Life sucks. Injustice is inevitable, no one is safe. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia is faced with Hamlet playing with her emotions. Hamlet plays a game with Ophelia, where he eventually drives her mad. Ophelia is in a search for justice for his actions, wanting just to have a normal relationship with Hamlet. However, her search comes to no avail, ending with her tragic death, just one of many in Hamlet. Hamlet plays with Ophelia’s emotions all throughout the book. People tell her that Hamlet doesn’t love her, Hamlet tells her that he really does love her, he contradicts his statement by saying that she should never have believed that he loved her, and he kills her dad. Ophelia is faced with a lot of adversity. She never knows the status of her relationship with Hamlet and is constantly trying to figure out his madness, which inevitably leads to her madness. Ophelia only wants to have a normal relationship. She wants justice for all of the craziness that Hamlet has put her through.

In her novel-long search for justice, Ophelia is driven mad. Hamlet ensures that Ophelia never knows the status of her relationship with Hamlet, but that is all that Ophelia wants. Hamlet’s main focus is on killing Claudius, and this further pushes Ophelia out of his list of priorities. Hamlet’s contradicting stories of saying he loves her, then he doesn’t love her throws Ophelia into a state of madness, just as Hamlet seems to be in. Eventually, Ophelia can’t handle the games that Hamlet was playing, and allows herself to drown. Her search for justice was cut short by Hamlet’s psychology throwing her mind into a state of madness, which eventually led to her allowance of