What types of love can be found in Hamlet?
Although love fails often in Hamlet, there is much love in the play. Ophelia loves Hamlet, Gertrude loves Hamlet, and despite his anger, Hamlet loves Gertrude. Hamlet also loves his father dearly, and this love prompts, in part, his desire for revenge. There is also love between friends, as seen in the relationship between Hamlet and Horatio. Can you tell me about the blood imagery in Hamlet? Blood is not really one of the primary motifs in Hamlet, as it is in Macbeth. Rather imagery of disease and rot permeate the play. Here are but a few examples: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (1.4.100) It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen. (3.4.151) How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on’t! ah fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. (1.2.135) Make you a wholesome answer; my wit’s diseased: but, sir, such answer
