Part one of term paper
Throughout Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet, feelings and passion are an enormous distraction for the main character Hamlet. Hamlet tends to act as though he were an adolescent rather than a grown man. He acts very immature, sarcastic, and takes action, before thinking it out, in the heat of anger. The abilities to love, control one's actions ...

Part two of term paper
... problem controlling his love for Ophelia as well as controlling his actions. It is apparent that Hamlet loves Ophelia in his own special manner when he says: “To the celestial, and my soul's idol, the most beautified/ Ophelia--/”(II, ii, 116-117) Although he may love her with all his might, as he tells Laeretes,: I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum. (V,i, 264-266) Hamlet is too immature to love her enough to trust h ...