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Love After All In William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Ophelia, the daughter of the King's councilor is not allowed to love prince Hamlet. Princes are not free to marry ladies of the court and both Ophelia's brother and father would not allow her to love him. She followed her father's instruction and did not pursue a relationship with Hamlet. Ophelia must not love Hamlet, and she shows no obvious affection toward him, therefore she does not love him. Contrary to these facts, when the text is analyzed, there are strands of evidence that suggest that she does love Hamlet and is tortures by her inability to express these feelings. In Act 1 Scene 3, Laertes advises his sister on the subject of Hamlet to "Think it no more". Hamlet cannot love Ophelia because, as Laertes knows "His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; For he himself is...

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