Friday, September 30, 2011

Act 2-3 question

Please post your response to the following question using at least two quotes from Acts 2-3. Please also read some of your classmates' posts and choose two to respond to (ask them a question, make a comment agreeing/disagreeing with something they wrote, etc.). Posts must be at least two paragraphs long, and responses must be at least two sentences long. If someone responds to your post with a question, you must answer it.

Think about Hamlet’s relationship with Ophelia. Does he love her? Does he stop loving her? Did he ever love her? What evidence can you find in the play to support your opinion?

8 comments:

  1. I think Hamlet is in love with Ophelia. The reason I think he is in love with her is due to the fact he gave her love notes. He also yells at her then kisses her. At some point, I do think Hamlet does stop loving Ophelia. He denies the love notes and ignores her. In the movie, he ignores her then comes back and kisses her. Therefore I think Hamlet is in love with Ophelia yet he doesn't want to admit it. JK

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  2. I think hamlet did love Ophelia.He loved her because he wrote her love notes and always came back and kissed her even when he yelled at her. He stopped loving her because his father died. Since his uncle married his mother he has mixed feelings going on in his head.He later kills Polonius which makes me think he does not love Ophelia or the family.He tells Ophelia get the to a nunnery which is not very nice. Meagan Ramos

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  3. I think that Hamlet does love Ophelia but because of his own weirdoness and everything else that is goig on in hisd life I beleive that he just forgot that he loved her " Get thee to a nunnery" He doesnt auctually stop loving her his judgement just gets clouded by the revenge that he feels he must do to Claudius. The lovenotes provide the evidence that he did feel something for Ophelia but that kind opf got put by the wayside as he got more and more crazy at Claudius.

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  4. I think hamlet loves ophelia i just think that sometimes people show there love in a different way. And just cause we may not understand it that doesnt mean he doesnt actually lover her. I think Hamlet is just a little confused and stressed out with everything that has been going on in his life.
    Even after ophelia died Hamlet still tries and protect her and take her side. He gets in a fight with ophelias brother over something so simple, but they both love her and want to think what they do about her. ES

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  5. I believe that Hamlet does truly love Ophelia. I also think though that he doesn't want to get her involved and hurt in this whole situation. I think that deep down he doesn't want to show that it is hurting him to sort of let her go. Yet he doesn't know what else to do so he starts putting up a wall. At the same time Ophelia is so confused and getting whiplash from him changing his mind so much!
    Overall he did and always did love Ophelia. He just didn't always know how to show it and at othertime I believe that it was just too much for him to handle. Especially since he was so caught up with the whole situation of his father and all the king junk. Too much for one person to be able to handle.
    KW!!!! :D

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  6. I think Ophelia Loved Hamlet. She wrote him letters and tried to talk to him alot. Also that Ophelia stopped loving him. Because she used to write hiim letters and flirt with hiim, but when he began to act crazy she stopped and was kind of afraid of him.
    I think that Hamlet pretended to like Ophelia. Even though he wrote letters to her sometime ago he was just trying to impress his Mother, the Queen. When Hamlet becomes crazy and then Ophelia dies, he actes to Love her and misses her ALOT. I get this impression because he totally blows her off in the beginning then after she dies Hamlet gets in her grave and tells them to bury him with her. A good actor.
    Allison Boehne*

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  7. If he didnt love her he wouldnt have kissed her. i think he did love her and he tricked and deceived her only to be hard to get! but on the other hand he could have tricked her to play the part of insanity and to get to the th king.

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  8. So, if Hamlet is in love with Ophelia he wouldnt be so distant and cold-hearted to her. on the other hand he kisses her and then leaves. You know she loves him because after he leaves for England he goes all crazy and stuff. He is in love with her when she dies because he says to bury him with her. i think they love each other but dont know it.as weird as it sounds she dies because losing the love of her life drove her to madness causing her to drown. if you ask me it is a tragedy that they dont fall in love and live through the story.

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