Ophelia Essay

she had a younger brother named Neal, they both went to school, nearby where, and everyone knew each other. In some cases small schools where everyone knows each other is good other times it can be a curse like we hear from Margaret in Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher PH. D... Small towns, lead to small schools and in most cases this means everyone knows each other’s business. In Margaret’s situation it meant becoming an outcast by the whole class. Margaret developed sooner than her…

character is heavily influenced by the men in her life, and her behavior takes a turn towards madness. The feminist critic, Elaine Showalter, argues in her work, “Representing Ophelia: Women, Madness, and the Responsibilities of Feminist Criticism,” whether Ophelia becomes mad from patriarchal control or from love. Ophelia is from a society where feminism and femininity are seen as weak, and she is driven into madness by the actions and words of Polonius, Laertes, and Hamlet. In Elizabethan…

there was no easy way out. Her father believed Hamlet was an evil man and although Ophelia did not believe this, she made it her objective to follow her father’s wishes. She stayed away from the man she loved in order to complete the task set on her by her father. In her performance, I saw two distinct features that the performer made for her character. The first feature was the camera she took everywhere. Before Ophelia took her own life, we saw the camera that she held so dear lying around in…

In this tragic romance it is questioned whether Hamlet does truly and sincerely affectionately love Ophelia because of his complicated actions throughout the play. In the reading there is plenty of documentation that proved and testified Hamlets true infatuation with Ophelia. Hamlet was not the average flawless man that you would expect in your typical Shakespearean romance, he was an already broken-hearted, demoralized man. His father was brutally murdered and washed away from the earth…

After Polonius’ death Ophelia turns to singing to portray her madness. She sings about her relationship with Hamlet as well as the one with her father. Ophelia croons about Polonius, “He is dead and gone, lady, he is dead and gone; at his head a grass-green turf, at his heels a stone” (IV:v:34-37). Her father has always given her orders to follow, she does not know how to act alone. She says her father is, “white his shroud as the mountain snow” (IV:v:41). Her father told her to deny Hamlet’s…

at best). In other words, Miss Ophelia is the first proper Northern abolitionist (she comes straight from Vermont, after all) that Stowe focuses her narration on for an extended period, which gives readers much insight into her thoughts and motives (and consequently, she represents abolitionists for readers). Her introduction into the novel, therefore, is carefully…

In the play Hamlet, Hamlet’s relationship with Ophelia is very sporadic. His emotions towards Ophelia vary from being very in love with her, to despising her. Ophelia’s feelings towards Hamlet also vary in the same manner. In the beginning of the play, Ophelia states to Polonius that Hamlet “Hath my lord, of late made many tenders of his affection to me” (I: iii: 108-109). These tenders of affection refer to Hamlet’s love for Ophelia and shows that he is trying to portray his love for her.…

Hamlets relationship with Ophelia shows that he really does love her. Hamlet has never stopped loving Ophelia and he always has loved her .The way Hamlet acts around Ophelia when he is alone with her shows that he is really in love with Ophelia. Hamlet and Ophelia are much more like general lovers and they have known each other since many years ago. So he loves her very much. But his love feelings has reduced and changed after his Father’s death and Ophelia decides to listen to her father…

Gertrude and Ophelia are victims of all the tragedies that occur or are they simply just weak. For example why did Ophelia never speak up for herself and tell her father that she didn’t want to break up with Hamlet? Another example is why did Gertrude allow for Hamlet to be so harsh with her at times and also why did she marry her late husbands brother? Many of the choices that these two women made were questionable, but as we all know there is always a reason behind ones actions. Ophelia…

an optimist and I believe everyone has at least some good in them. Even Hamlet, whose black deeds are renowned more than the play itself, does have good in him. Though it’s not easy to understand, I believe Hamlet did love Ophelia. To be able to understand why Hamlet loved Ophelia and why he said what he did and did what he did, it’s important to first understand their characters. Hamlet was an emotional wreck through the entire play up to his tragic death at Laertes’ hands. The play…