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Comparing Hamlet And Ophelia

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Up last, there is Ophelia the daughter of Polonius and sister to Laertes. Ophelia presents a danger to Hamlet in the form of emotional damage. She loves Hamlet and Hamlet has another performance about how he does not love her in the slightest in act three, scene one when Hamlet says “You should not have believed me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it. I loved you not.” The exchange between Hamlet and Ophelia makes Hamlet mad which is not the best state of mind for Hamlet. Again the pattern of dead dads continues with Ophelia when she loses her mind wandering around singing then commits suicide by drowning herself. The act of killing herself is the difference between Ophelia and Hamlet. Ophelia is weak compared

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