illness?

Claudius is very skeptical of Hamlet and whether he is faking his illness, or if it is for real. However, I tend to believe that Claudius does think that Hamlet is truly mad. At the end of act III.i the king and polonius were disscusing the meeting between Ophelia and Hamlet. The king mentioned that what hamlet had said didnt really make sence and his thought process was distorted. With this the king desired to send Hamlet away to England; this is evident when he said, "It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go".

is it loveee? blog

I'm pretty sure that Hamlet did have feelings for Ophelia prior to Act 3. However, what he did feel for her was not a deep love, because he would not have been able to get over her as quickly as he did! From the things he said and the actions that he portrayed, you are able to see how he did at one point have somesort of love for her and that quickly changed into rude comments and inappropriate suggestions. In Act II scene ii and perhaps even before this, Hamlet writes love letters to Ophelia expressing his desires in a relationship with her. After a brief (and somewhat frightening) encounter, Hamlet appears angry with Ophelia. He tells her that she is a prostitute and that she should join a nunery. Now how about a comment like that? whooo Hamlet has some major guts.

first blog

In act III scene i hamlet continues with his mixed messages and generalizations. He doesn't appear "mad" in this chapter, however, he is not completly sane. The reason he was getting so irritated and upset with Opthelia was because of the fact he had the horrible feeling of unrequited love. He wasnt angry about the fact that it wasnt Opthelia that didnt love him, it was that no one that he loved, loved him the same way back in return; not necessarily Opthelia's love.