What was hamlets treatment of Ophelia?

Answer 1

She went along with her father's plan to cut off all communication with him which was not very nice. She also went along with her father's plan to entice Hamlet into revealing why he is acting oddly, at least in part. This was a betrayal of confidence, and Hamlet was furious about it.

Answer 2

Act three, Scene 1 of Hamlet has to be the most tense, complicated and ambiguous scene in all of drama. Hamlet meets Ophelia in a hallway of the castle in a place where Claudius and Polonius are hidden to spy on them. Ophelia knows they are there and that she is the bait to get Hamlet to reveal himself. Hamlet might or might not know that they are there, and might or might not know that Ophelia knows it. Ophelia may be saying some of what she is saying to try to convey to Hamlet that they are being overheard, without letting Polonius and Claudius know it. Hamlet may be saying things for the benefit of Claudius and Polonius, or he may be saying them to Ophelia, to warn her not to get involved in his troubles, or that he is actually not as crazy as he seems to be.

We could explore the scene line by line, but the key issue is that at some point, Hamlet realizes that Ophelia knows and is complicit in the plot to spy on him. And this angers him. He is angry and bitter at his schoolfriends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern already for allowing themselves to be "sent for", and this is worse, because he loves Ophelia and she has made him believe that she loves him in turn. Instead, she has allowed herself to be a tool of Hamlet's uncle. Earlier, he has asked her to withdraw from life to escape the evil that the intrigues of men can bring upon her. "We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery". When he finds that she has already been corrupted and has allowed herself to be used by others like a prostitute (not that she was selling her sexual favours, but that she was selling her presence as bait), the convent nunnery that Hamlet wants her to go to becomes a brothel nunnery, since the word had both meanings. Hamlet explodes in anger at her hypocrisy and corruption and the institution of marriage which he hoped once to share with her.

"I have heard of your paintings, well enough. God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and you lisp; you nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't! It hath made me mad! I say there shall be no more marriages. Those that are married already, all--but one--shall live. The rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go!"

Answer 3

It's hard to say exactly. We know they are on affectionate terms, and may be lovers, as the play starts. Hamlet has sent love-letters to Ophelia we know, because she produces one and gives it to her father. There are other "remembrances" that she wants to give back to him in III, 1 and he must have given them to her at some point. But he cannot know exactly how he treated her, because we never see it, because Shakespeare never wrote it.

Answer 4

I think Ophelia treats hamlet good but at the same time she has jumped to conclusions and doesnt know why he is so angry.

Answer 5

he treats Ophelia as though he doesn't love her when he really does and he treats Gertrude as his mother but he doesn't like that fact that she married his uncle, who killed his father.

Answer 6

Hamlet may have treated Ophelia cruelly because of his overall views of women. Hamlet believed that women were weak, sinful, and frail.