Hamlet #8

In this section of the play, Hamlet is in the graveyard with Horatio. The two are talking with the gravedigger when a funeral procession arrives. hamlet is unaware that this is the funeral for Ophelia, since she drowned in the previous scene. When Hamlet learns that it is Ophelia who has died, he jumps into her grave alongside Laertes and declares his love for Ophelia. He says, “Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum” (V.i.285–287). Here, Hamlet is saying that his love for Ophelia is greater than that of forty thousand brothers. The King and Queen are astonished by this action from Hamlet. This only further shows that Hamlet is indeed crazy. However, hamlet is purely addressing his feeling for his love who has just recently died. hamlet has the right to be upset, yet, he is deemed crazy for expressing his true emotions.