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What's up with Hamlet and Ophelia? Would their relationship status be "it's complicated," or "holy cow, guys, this is pretty messed up, maybe our friends should step in and stop this from happening..."?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's hamlet hamlet and ophelia
- 00:08
Eyelash What is going on with the relationship between hamlet
- 00:14
and ophelia When we're introduced a hamlet No ophelia they've
- 00:18
been having some kind of courtship we know that hamlet's
- 00:21
been sending her love letters and then you know of
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- 00:24
course like the meddling brother and dad have to get
- 00:28
get in on the action where it ease and polonius
- 00:30
come up and convince her that she should distance him
- 00:32
that she should keep her distance from him because he's
- 00:34
not actually going to marry her because she's not at
- 00:36
his status and clearly he's just using her So this
- 00:40
is it needless to say really kind of shakes her
- 00:42
confidence and then she's used is this on So when
- 00:45
she's speaking to hamlet there eavesdropping on them they're they're
- 00:49
using her to get inside of hamlet's head which obviously
- 00:53
does damage to her psyche to write like because her
- 00:56
love suddenly is not is not really the point her
- 00:59
love is made into this sham and there's a possibility
- 01:02
that hamlet knows he's being eavesdropped on and his love
- 01:05
also then becomes a sham So they're the relationship just
- 01:08
kind of like takes a rapid turn and he insults
- 01:12
her And makes is really crass References famously says get
- 01:16
thee to a nunnery But he seems to have no
- 01:19
affection for her anymore and eventually she just unable to
- 01:22
take the pressure and goes insane So yeah so we
- 01:25
don't really know why any of these people made exactly
- 01:28
the decisions that they did and definitely ofi leah's trouble
- 01:31
seems to be precisely that she doesn't understand why this
- 01:35
is like it doesn't seem to be her faults And
- 01:38
hamlet for his part doesn't seem to actually wish harm
- 01:41
on ophelia But it's also very frustrated with her position
- 01:44
in the middle of all this infighting What is going 00:01:52.457 --> [endTime] on with the relationship between hamlet and ophelia
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