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You can also tell the character of Hamlet by listening to how he says in the next quote, that Ophelia could take off his edge by having sex with him, which is what he meant by it would cost her groaning. He is crude and he truly doesn't understand what it means to love someone. Ophelia was romanced by Hamlet, swooned even through love letters and possibly flowers. But she was not loved by Hamlet in the way she thought she was. Hamlet even tells her later, "I never loved you." I believe that was the only time in the entire story that Hamlet ever spoke the truth. Hamlet can shout to the heaven's after Ophelia died how much he loved her but had he loved her, he never would have denied her in the first place. He would have wanted to commit himself to her regardless of who said they should or should not be together. That's what true love is; a commitment to each other.

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Listening to her father was a good thing. Not because Hamlet was royalty and she a peasant, but because Hamlet was only using Ophelia. You can tell in the next quote, Hamlet blames Ophelia for ending the relationship. He talks about how brief her love was. Insulting her because her father urged her to stop the romance. When someone loves, they love beyond a shadow of a doubt. With or without reason. They would never blame the other person for something out of their control.

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When Hamlet is talking about country matters with Ophelia it is rather strange that he would be so childish about it. He talks to her how it would be nice to be in between a woman's legs and he might not necessarily mean Ophelia. Ophelia was probably feeling alone and intimidated by Hamlet when, after he took her virginity he decided to talk about how nice it is to be in between Ophelia or another woman's legs. Ophelia should have carefully observed Hamlet's character before she ever was involved with him if she was guarding her heart she would have understood that his words were not true. I understand it's hard for people to tell because they get caught up in the romance of it all. However, she should have waited longer to give up something that meant so much to her.

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Hamlet promised her that if she slept with him, he would marry her. She believed him and fell for someone who never truly cared about her the way she deserved. If Hamlet ever cared about Ophelia the way he shouts to Laertes, then he never would have made a huge spectacle at her funeral. He wouldn't have had to prove to Laertes, Claudius, and Gertrude that he truly loved her because his actions would have shown way before Ophelia killed herself. In fact, I believe that if Hamlet did love Ophelia she never would have died because he would have married her and she would feel no shame for sleeping with him. She would feel as if her purity was still there because she slept with the man she married. The order might be different than the traditional way but to me being with the man you marry is what is important.

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In the beginning of the book, Ophelia had a growth mindset. She imagined a future with Hamlet and desired to be married to him. However, eventually her mindset began to change. I believe she felt as if she had nothing left in life. Hamlet betrayed her and her father was killed by the very same man who betrayed her. She must have felt that for listening to her father and breaking off the relationship Hamlet was attempting to pay her back by murdering her father. However, Ophelia was probably overwhelmed by the fact that her purity was no longer in tact by not being married to the man she slept with.

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"By Gis and by Saint Charity,/ Alack, and fie, for shame!/ Young men will do 't, if they come to 't./ By Cock, they are t blame./ Quoth she, "Before you tumbled me,/ You promised me to wed."/ He answers,/ "So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,/ An thou hadst not come to my bed." 4.5.57-65

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"Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day,/ All in the morning bedtime,/ And I a maid at your window,/ To be your valentine,/ Then up he rose, and donned his clothes,/ And dupped the chamber door./ Let in a maid that out a maid/ Never departed more." 4.5.47-55

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"You are keen, my lord, you are keen./ It would cost you a groaning to take off mine edges." 3.2.232-233

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" 'Tis brief, my lord./ As woman's love." 3.2.138-139

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"Will he tell us what this show meant?/ Ay, or any show that you will show him. Be not you ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means./ You are naught, you are naught, I'll mark the play." 3.2.130-134

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"Do you think I mean country matters?/ I think nothing my Lord./ That's a fair thought, to lie between a maids' legs." 3.2.106-108

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"Ay, truly, for the power of beauty will sooner transform/ honesty from what it is to be bawd than the force of honesty/ can translate beauty into his likeness. This was sometime a paradox,/ but now time gives it proof. I did love you/ once. 3.1.113-117

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I believe Ophelia was a beautiful young girl who allowed something as important as her virginity to define who she was.
"No, my good lord, but as you did command/ I did repel his fetters and denied/ his access to me."2.1.107-110
In the quote, Ophelia talks to her father about how she was being forced into no longer talking to Hamlet. By listening to her father, she put herself in a position that her and Hamlet didn't like. You can't live your life to please everyone. You can try to not deliberately hurt people but ultimately your life is your own and you cannot blame anyone but yourself if you are not where you want to be in life.  This is why I believe Ophelia should have continued to see Hamlet, because you may not like someone when you first get to know them but you can know their actions and understand them better, if Ophelia had known that, Hamlet might have eventually loved her the way she deserved and married her. However, we will never know now. The story ended, in my opinion, when Ophelia died.

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I believe Ophelia's ultimate downfall was her letting other people define her life. She allowed Hamlet on several occasions to call her a whore, like in the quotes, and she doesn't even try to advocate for herself. She simply allowed those things to be said about her and was willing to let Hamlet take advantage of her and the fact that she would always care about him. I don't believe it was bad that Hamlet said those things about her; often times people will say things out of bitterness and not even mean what they say. However, I do believe it was terrible that there wasn't a reply from Ophelia about how he is wrong to say that. Feelings are an acceptable thing as long as they are corrected. Had she corrected Hamlet, the bad things he said would not have sunk so deep into her heart and made a place there, she would have believe that she is worth more than being a whore and being at Hamlet's side. She would know her purity did not rest in Hamlet but in God who gave her the purity to begin with.

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I believe Ophelia was a very complex, hurting young woman. She had so much going on in her life and she didn't fully understand the pressure she was continuously putting upon herself. She fell for a man who never truly cared about her. He only desired to have her, to be a trophy for him because of her beauty.

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Even though almost all the characters in Hamlet were looked passed, Ophelia was a young woman who was completely taken for granted and only used as a tool to make the other male character deaths more heroic.