Ophelia Loyalty Quotes

Love Kills

Loyal. Betrayed. Insane. Ophelia, a character from The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, goes through emotional pain and suffering, that drives her into madness. Torn between her father’s word and her love for Hamlet, she chooses to listen to her father, which spells her own demise. Hamlet betrays Ophelia, telling her that he never loved her and that she meant nothing to him. Ophelia feels abandoned, but when her father dies she is pushed over the edge. She is no longer able to move on so she takes her own life.

Loyal. Ophelia has a conversation with her brother and her father about Hamlet and how he can not be trusted. Ophelia’s brother and father command her to stop seeing Hamlet, “I shall obey, my lord” (1.3.145). She listens her brother and father even though she believes in Hamlet. Laertes knows that Ophelia is loyal, so he shares his honest opinion, knowing she will keep it a secret, “Tis in my memory locked, /And you yourself shall keep the key of it” (1.3.92-93). Ophelia reassures Laertes, showing him that his secret is safe. When

Hamlet approaches Ophelia in her chamber as a crazy man she is shocked. She does not understand what has gotten into him, “O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!” (2.1.85). She rushes to her father to tell him what had happened with Hamlet, showing that she is faithful to her father. Early in the play Ophelia shows that she is devout to those above her by not only listening to them, but also doing as she is commanded to.
Betrayed. Ophelia confronts Hamlet and explains to him that they are no longer able to be together. She gives him back the gifts that he had presented to her earlier in their relationship. This action outraged Hamlet, “I loved you not” (3.1.129). Hamlet used his words to harm Ophelia more than she has ever been injured before. He unleashed his anger “Get thee to a nunnery” (3.1.140). He says that she is unfaithful and belongs in a brothel. Hamlet’s words shattered her, she thought that he loved her “I was the more deceived” (3.1.130). Ophelia feels abandoned, tricked, and hurt by Hamlet. Ophelia is mentally abused very frequently throughout the course of the play, which leads to her going insane,
Insane.

Ophelia’s mental strength quickly dissipates due to multiple happenings in the play. The man that she once thought she was in love with kills her father, driving her into the dark abyss of grief. She begins to fall into madness, “...speaks things in doubt /That carry but half sense /Her speech is nothing” (3.3.7-8). She begins to jabber on about nonsense. She loses her ability to think, “...poor Ophelia /Divided from herself and her fair judgment” (4.5.91-92). Others see her as an emotional wreck, falling farther and farther into insanity. She finally can’t take it anymore, so she ends her own life, “As we have warranty. Her death was doubtful” (5.1.234). Others saw Ophelia in a dark light, saying that she took her own life, and that she did not deserve a nobel burial. Ophelia was driven into mania by a combination of negative things, that in the end, lead to her taking her own

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Ophelia, a character from The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, was tricked, betrayed, and abandoned which lead to her demise. She found that the man she had once loved never loved her and that he had killed her father. From these events Ophelia fell into lunacy, causing her to look at life in a different, very dim, light. She felt out of place in the living and ended her own life. Ophelia was loyal which lead to be betrayed by one that she thought loved her. She fell from her perch down into the pits of sorrow and even deeper into the flaming chasm of hell.