Ophelia Obedient

In Hamlet, Ophelia is portrayed as a beautiful young woman. She is the young daughter of Polonius, the sister of Laertes, and Hamlet's love interest. In the play, Ophelia is trapped amongst her obedience to her father and her love for Hamlet, which comes with several tragic consequences. Ophelia tries to be “obedient”. Ophelia is the ideal obedient daughter, a role that is required entirely of all young women in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Ophelia also happens to be the most innocent. She symbolizes purity at first, then gets into her madness. Ophelia is an example of how being obedient is not always a great thing. She was unseeingly submissive to her family, she was a puppet that followed commands. After the death of her father Polonius she became was still a puppet but a puppet without strings attached. Due to her father’s death, she was unable to survive without the commands of her father, she decided to go mad. However, Ophelia is torn between her duty to her father and the love she feels for Hamlet. When her father commands her to stop seeing Hamlet, she submits to his needs and say "I shall obey my Lord" (Act 1). Essentially, Ophelia has no control over her relationships, her life, her body, or anything that just must do with her. …show more content…
Supposedly, Hamlet did love Ophelia as he says, "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers, if you added all their love together, couldn't match mine" (Act 5) but that was more to the end of the play. In the play, Hamlet treats Ophelia more like a doormat than anything else. Numerous times Hamlet went to Ophelia’s chambers to sleep with her with his pants down he would call her many cruel names. Ophelia possibly did love Hamlet and if it weren’t for being under the commands and ownership of both her father and he brother, she might have been able to influence Hamlet in many