Ophelia Essay

then murders Polonius and then Claudius. Also while trying to do that Gertrude dies. Ophelia falls greatly in love with Hamlet but, he is not in love with her. After finding out her dad died, she went mad and eventually killed herself. Claudius wants to be king, so he murders Hamlet's father to be able to take the crown. He then tried to poison Hamlet, but ended up killing his new wife Gertrude. Hamlets, Ophelias, and Claudius’s irrational behaviors which stem from their blindness by their…

time Hamlet truly declared his love for Ophelia and unfortunately it is too late, later he has rejected her and she has ignored him, then later killed her father that led to her final fall. Throughout the play, Hamlet never told Ophelia he loved her and in this declaration he claims that he loved her more than forty thousand men, which is he says because laertes jumps into her grave and declares that he loved her the most. 6. When Hamlet says, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not…

Throughout history, Shakespeare’s work has been used as inspiration for various artists. Artists have created their own interpretation of Shakespeare plays which have resulted in many creative works. For example, Romeo and Julie have been used to inspire movies like the modern interpretation Romeo and Juliet by Baz Luhrmann or Gnome and Juliet, which divides the same plot but with an animated twist. The Bad Sleep Well is another example of a movie inspired by Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. The plot…

end very well and then Hamlet shows up which he was supposed to be killed in England. Hamlet then goes to the graveyard and asks who they are digging the grave for and picks up a skull that rolls out with the dirt. Hamlet then finds out about how Ophelia killed herself by drowning in the river and that gets him much closer to the…

swiftly in seeking revenge against Claudius for murdering his father, King Hamlet, results in the deaths of Polonius and Ophelia. Claudius’ endless resolve to kill Hamlet to eliminate the threat he poses to his throne results in the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Laertes and himself as a direct result of his pusillanimity to murder Hamlet himself. Polonius and Ophelia are disposed of as collateral damage to Hamlet’s main target since he is behaving indecisively by procrastinating…

lot of the time, it leaves a grave scar on a person, changing their outlook on everything in life. Ophelia, in Shakespeare's famous play Hamlet, goes through awfully painful experiences in a short period of time, causing her to spiral into the deep darkness of depression and clinical schizophrenia. The two illnesses, being one of the most drastically encapsulating disorders, unfortunately bring Ophelia to her calamitous death in act four. Parallel to Ophelia’s illnesses, a character named Dino…

The 1990 version of Hamlet directed by Franco Zeffirelli (Links to an external site.) is a two-hour movie in which several scenes were cut from the original four-hour play. It is accessible and interesting to watch. Zeffirelli is also the director of the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. He received an Academy Award nomination for directing the play. Later in his life, he received many different honors. Due to his experience of directing other plays into films, Hamlet is another successful…

Hamlet gleefully tortures Ophelia with pun after pun. He starts out their interaction by asking “Lady, shall I lie in your lap?” to which she replies “No, my lord” and he clarifies “I mean, my head upon your lap?” Ophelia says “Ay, my lord.” Hamlet then asks her “Do you think I meant country matters?” and she says “I think nothing, my lord” to which Hamlet says “That’s a fair…

His reply “as woman’s love” (3.2.152) to Ophelia, when she says that the dialogue said by the actor on stage was “tis brief” (3.2.151), can be interpreted as the prince’s insinuation that it’s short as Ophelia’s love for him or as Gertrude’s love for her dead husband. Similarly, his mother is another…

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the young prince of Denmark is faced with many conflicting events that affect his psychological mindset. After spending the majority of his life under his father’s shadow, his father’s sudden death is traumatic and leaves Hamlet to ponder on his own under the influence of the new King of Denmark, his uncle Claudius. The unraveling events that occur in the tragedy trigger the prince of Denmark’s turn to insanity and leave us questioning whether or not his grip on…