Theme Of Love And Justice In Hamlet

Throughout Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, death and justice are reoccurring themes, but they are not as vital as love. Love affairs, broken hearts, and betrayal shuffle between each of the characters, causing hysteria within their lives. Shakespeare uses the characters to show how love, justice, and death play a part in each act, letting the reader debate the outcome and reasoning of each event. Hamlet’s love interest, Ophelia, has the greatest ties to love. She experiences love in many ways, including blind love and loss of love. Shakespeare uses Ophelia to show that love does not conquer all, and that blind love leads to insanity.
Love causes Ophelia to lose the voice every person deserves to have. Losing this freedom for the ones she loves
Rosenberg argues that “Ophelia and Laertes’ natural love for their father is employed narratively by Shakespeare when Hamlet mistakenly murders Polonius,” (Rosenberg). The distress of Hamlet’s insanity is only causing Ophelia to go crazy herself, and when Hamlet kills Polonius, she only goes downhill from there. Ophelia’s insanity is also a period of self realization of how much she loved her father, but she can no longer profess and prove that love to him. Rosenberg is saying that Shakespeare chose to show Polonius’ children’s love after the fact to represent the tribulation they felt once he died. Once Ophelia realizes how important Polonius is once he is gone, it leaves a feeling of emptiness and guilt within her mind, causing lunacy in her life. As the news of her father’s death sinks in, Ophelia loses a sense of reality and we see that best in Act 4, Scene 5. Gertrude is discussing Ophelia’s insanity to Claudius when Ophelia comes in singing, “He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone, At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone” (IV.iiv.29-32). The lost of love has become a theme in Ophelia's life, and it only represents that love is not the answer to everything, yet mental awareness