Ophelia Essay

The most polarized affair in the English literature was Hamlet and Ophelia. Every affair has a big twist on it. Their love was deep yet hidden and it can be proven by facts throughout the story in many parts. The main parts are as follows: the affair itself, their break-up, and the graveyard. This is where the main problems and the truth is revealed. The father of Ophelia knew about the affair between Hamlet and Ophelia. Polonius, her father, said,” You speak like a green girl, unsifted in such…

As she enters onto the scene of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia shines with a pure, youthful radiance against the backdrop of corrupted Denmark. This immediate, untainted sense of joy and contentment fade, however, as she, in her traditionally feminine and submissive nature, begins to bend under the weight of the male forces seeking to dominate her. After enduring Polonius and Laertes’s abuse to her free will to love and Hamlet’s blatant disregard for the sanctity of their mutual affection,…

despite the fact that Hamlet lied and used Ophelia for the good of himself, he truly was in love with her. Throughout the play we notice a dramatic change from beginning to end, in regards to Hamlet’s relationship with Ophelia. In the beginning of the play we see Hamlet having feelings for Ophelia, but then we see him talk down to Ophelia and start to deny his feelings towards her. We see Hamlet writing love letters to Ophelia, in the middle of the play when Ophelia begins to go crazy she…

Ophelia never directly spies on Hamlet in the play. However, she is used as a tool by Claudius and Polonius to understand Hamlet’s thoughts. Ruth Nevo notes, “The audience watches the two spies [Claudius and Polonius] watching Hamlet…probing the genuineness of Ophelia’s feelings, and announcing his own with wildly contradictory declarations…and the audience watches Ophelia utterly bewildered by all she sees and hears…” (48-49). Claudius uses Ophelia as bait in drawing out Hamlet’s…

toward Ophelia. He is always defensive and protective when it comes to his feelings toward Ophelia. Hamlet’s love for Ophelia is very obstruct and hard to understand. Hamlet’s feelings are everywhere throughout the book, he is unpredictable. In some scenes it is clear that he has been in love with Ophelia but in other scenes Hamlet denies his love for Ophelia. Hamlet not just denied his feeling for Ophelia, he also rejected her. However, Hamlet had reasons for denying his love for Ophelia. The…

Treating the Ophelia Syndrome” by Thomas G. Plummer was interesting to read. I recognized the name “Ophelia” from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The Ophelia Syndrome is a psychological disorder that is described as the inability to think for yourself. This syndrome is named after Ophelia from Hamlet because she was always told what to do by the men around her. Ophelia was never able to think for herself. This drove her to become insane and eventually kill herself. Even though it seems Ophelia wants…

the play is centered around a single, precise conflict, it is filled with uncertainties relating to the developing disputes behind the main plot. The audience is left with many questions regarding the true feelings of Ophelia. One of these questions in particular is, what caused Ophelia to lose her mind and, in turn, kill herself? Was she simply driven mad by her love for Prince Hamlet or was she a victim of a society that had created unfair and unmanageable expectations for its women? This…

Social Learning of Ophelia In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, his character Ophelia is an example of a person who suffers from the negative results of Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory. Bandura’s theory explains how people should be developing their social learning skills by observing others around them such as family, friends, and possibly those who are seen on television or who they read about in books. He believes that a person’s development is greatly influenced by what they experience and…

¨I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers, if you added all their love together, couldn’t match mine.¨ said Hamlet, act 5, scene 1. Love is a multi meaningful word. It can for sure be a long bumpy road, but it can also be full of overwhelming happiness and joy. Personally speaking, the worst kind of love is when you can't have it. Loving someone that you know you can't have is something Hamlet and I deeply have in common. He was crazy for Ophelia! He loved everything about her. Sadly she did not…

Ophelia is a young girl in her teens that is growing up with just her father. She has a charming personality and ever attracts attention from Hamlet throughout the book. People would consider her to be living a very stable life and a healthy lifestyle, until…