Family Loyalty In Hamlet

Family Loyalty versus Love Life A feud within yourself is sometimes worse than having a conflict with another person. Not like debating on rather a dress makes you look fat or not; more like if you should follow your heart or to be obedient to your family. Now, outside looking in you may think this is an easy decision to make but to a delicate, fragile, and beautiful young lady it is not. To be more specific this beauty goes by the name Ophelia, she plays as the lover of Hamlet in the outstanding playwright Hamlet. Ophelia is portrayed as an easily swayed young lady who cannot choose between love and life due to hamlets “mad” act. A love so divine that it leads to a family torn apart and her life being the consequence of it all. Ophelia loves Hamlet but is forced to leave him alone because her father, Polonius, and brother, Laertes, are against her loving a charming lad of such high status such as Hamlet. Laertes brought up the initial conversation more or less as a heads up “For Hamlet and the trifling of his favor, Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, The perfume and suppliance of a minute. No more” (1.3.6). He’s implying that Hamlets love for her is only temporary and that she is just something

By time everyone took a notice to Ophelia’s madness it was too late. In her showing this new characteristic she is yelling abruptly and signing songs. For instance here “How should I your true love know From another one? By his cockle hat and staff, And his sandal shoon” (4.5.28). Soon after this precious Ophelia is dead by scene seven, the Queen informs Laertes about what has happened. His reaction is as expected but without tears he says he will not shed them and he keeps his word and exits the