The Corruption Of Love In Shakespeare's Hamlet

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It is a truth commonly acknowledged that love makes the world go ‘round. Love can break families; love can cure illness; love can take ugliness and press it into the creases of couch cushions. To put it simply, love can do many things. However, love is corruptible. It can crinkle and dissolve and erupt and burst and lash out. Love can hurt. Behind the charade of ghosts and revenge, Shakespeare - ever the romantic - writes a play speaking of the corruption of love and how love can change an entire story. This play is Hamlet. Through the actions of Hamlet, Ophelia, and Claudius, Shakespeare’s Hamlet reveals how far love can change a person and how much damage said love can do.
In Hamlet’s case, it is his love for his father that shows just how far Hamlet is willing to go for love. Think about it - Hamlet clearly feels betrayed and angered at both his Uncle and Mother for deciding to wed only “A little month…” after …show more content…

152). Feeling betrayed for someone else is not the actions of a person with no love. In fact, Hamlet’s reaction towards his Uncle and Mother joining in matrimony, even before knowing of his Uncle’s hand in his father’s death, indicates that Hamlet wants to protect his father’s love. At one point Hamlet says, “So excellent a king; that was, to this,/ Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother/That he might not beteem the winds of heaven/ Visit her face too roughly. (I.ii.140-144)” and this description, with its poetic language makes it clear that Hamlet is angry with his mother for marrying his Uncle and not valuing the love his father doted her with. Hamlet is essentially saying that his father was a man of honor and love who always put his mother first and the fact that his mother

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