Hamlet - He Loves Her? He Loves Her Not?

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at this point for his anger and frustration, is his mother’s abrupt marriage to Claudius. The actions of his mother seem to be what disgusts him most as he yells, "frailty thy name is woman!" (14 Act 1 Scene 2 Line 146). It is this attitude that Hamlet has developed towards his mother and women in general that plays a factor on his later treatment of Ophelia in Act 3.
Once Hamlet discovers the cause of his father’s death, he assumes the disposition of a mad man to disguise his true intentions of revenge. By doing so Hamlet is now able to do, as he wants to, without being questioned of his behavior. It may be the reader’s opinion that he does this on one occasion during which he visits Ophelia. Ophelia later relates this meeting to her father, telling him that Hamlet was not properly dressed, "and with a look so piteous in purport as if he had been loosed out of hell to speak of horrors-he comes before me." (39 Act 2 Scene 1 Line 84). This scene comes soon ...

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