He loves me,; He loves me not.

Poor Ophelia, she died for love… In this post I want to discuss the Hamlet and Ophelia’s relationship… wait, there was no relationship at all. According to Showalter she suffered from erotomania; it means that she was deluded by the image of Hamlet, someone that was out of her league. Hamlet flirted with her, but both her father and her brother recognised that they belong to two different social status, so their love was impossible.   So, why Hamlet is so sad when he arrived at Denmark and he realized that she has committed suicide? Hamlet confesses his love for Ophelia at the graveyard, so his grief is absolutely normal. However, I would like to postulate the idea (very twisted by the way) that Ophelia represents the humanity that still remained in Hamlet. He was paranoid, but after her death, he became the revenge machine that killed his uncle, his mother (collateral damage) and Ophelia’s brother.