Ap English Ophelia Rhetorical Devices

Within the soliloquy, Ophelia is portrayed to be furious over Hamlet’s mad behavior since he pretends that he never loved her. In order to illustrate such a scenario, she begins her soliloquy, by reminiscing about the many nights they shared and uses the image of rosemary, in order to claim that they used to talk about marriage in plenty of occasions. This juxtaposes with Hamlet’s jests at her, where he claims that he despises marriage. Ophelia as well uses a series of dark imagery, ‘lunacy’, ‘mad’, ‘demon’ and ‘carrion flies’ in order to emphasize how outraged she is with Hamlet for pretending that he never loved her. Hamlet within the nunnery scene, uses the image ‘painting’, in order to illustrate that it is a disguise for her lacking character. Ophelia uses the same image, except she claims that Hamlet’s painting is painted by carrion flies, which ultimately foreshadows his death since carrion flies feed on dead and decaying matter. …show more content…
This demonstrates that Ophelia is oblivious to his act and thinks that he is actually consumed in madness. Her use of rhetorical questions such as “ Hast carrion flies painted thy own?, Revengful?, Proud?, Ambitious?, demonstrates the shift in tone from furious to scarastic since she is enraged that Hamlet, her previous lover views her as much inferior to him. Ophelia concludes her soliloquy to play on the idea of her naivety using the image of a green girl and a marionette as she disappointly adds Hamlet to her growing roster of men that control