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Essay / How Hamlet reacts to Hamlet's death
Ophelia was one of the few that Hamlet did not hate. Hamlet seemed to have a certain amount of trust in Ophelia. Ophelia was there to see Hamlet in his lamentable moments of contemplation of death. In the play, Ophelia's father Polonius was killed and she was unable to escape. Madness overtook her, and she died in the most despicable way, she drowned. At her funeral, Hamlet jumped into the grave and declared his love: “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, constitute my sum. What are you going to do for her? (5, 1, l. 282-284). Hamlet showed deep grief over his death. In all, Ophelia is one of two people to whom Hamlet showed such an emotional reaction.