Blog Post 13: Hamlet Blog 1

Fellow Bloggers:

Send help!  All of you need to send your best love and parent advice as soon as possible!

In my last blog, I told you all how great my relationship with Hamlet was going.  He said he loves me and gave me his "many tenders of his affection" (I.iii.99).  But sadly for me, my father and my brother do not trust him the way I do.

My father forbade me to see Hamlet and to continue my relationship with Hamlet.  My brother completely agreed with him, and I need your advice to figure out how to handle this!  I want to love and cherish Hamlet, but I can't disobey my family.

My brother believes that Hamlet's duties lie within "the safety and health of this whole state," so he would not be able to love me as someone else would (I.iii.21).  I only told Laertes that I would keep his advice "As a watchman to my heart" and nothing more (I.iii.46).  I know he's just being a good brother and watching out for his naive sister, but still.  I can take care of myself.  Right?

Well, I thought my brother's advice was just plain nonsensical until my father gave me the same speech.  Once I told my father that Hamlet did offer his love and that his love is in fact true, he told me that these offers "are not sterling" (I.iii.107).  Of course his love is true!  Why wouldn't it be?  But my father is more insightful than I am. 

My father gave me the final command that I could not even "give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet" (I.iii.134).  What else could I do besides obey him?  I love both my father and brother; they are the only true family I have.  But Hamlet is also becoming part of my heart and my life.  I cannot lose him this way.

So please, send your help and your advice!

Ophelia