What is true love? Can there be different kinds of true love? Shakespeare demonstrates the different kinds of love in the masterminded play of Hamlet. Shakespeare uses five different characters to show the different ways that you can love a person. Shakespeare personifies different kinds of love in Hamlet; Hamlets love for Ophelia, Claudius and Gertrude’s love for each other, and Ophelia’s brothers’ love for her. Hamlet loves Ophelia and demonstrates this love …showed first 75 words of 625 total…

…showed last 75 words of 625 total…Hamlet and not have to choose one or the other. One critic also made the argument that Gertrude loved the sexual aspect of the relationship and that is why she is with him. “Gertrude is a very sexual being” (Shakespeare-online.com). By saying this the critic is hinting that she was in love with the sex that Claudius could give not just Claudius himself. Once more Shakespeare demonstrates just how twisted love can really be.