Ophelia Essay

lead to our eventual demise. The Play Hamlet by William Shakespeare has a character named Ophelia that is torn between her love for Hamlet and the desire to please her father, Polonius. This contradiction evidently leads to her insanity and eventual death, which demonstrates the profound destruction that occurs when the very people that love and protect you, abandon you. Since the beginning of the play Ophelia is being torn between her love for hamlet and the obedience she has for her…

Hamlet and Ophelia 's relationship in the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare is very passionate, confusing, violent, and tragic. Many claim that Hamlet fooled her and that he never really loved Ophelia, however I disagree. Hamlet surely loved Ophelia, and Ophelia felt the same. They definitely cared for one another, for Ophelia claims to her father, Polonius, that he "hath importuned [her] with love in honorable fashion", and if he had not loved her then he wouldn 't have gone to all that…

Critics from all over the world have stood in awe of the play’s universal themes of Power Ambition and betrayal. Shakespeare being the genius he is does a remarkable job at exposing the rawness with in each of the plays main characters. From Hamlet to Ophelia every character brings a sense of uniqueness. And each are put in various situations where they are tested and must combat their own on set of mental instabilities. These internalized struggles serve to make the characters appear more human…

Hamlet also verbally abuses his former lover, Ophelia. Believing her to have betrayed him, with no proof, casts her out of his life and compares her believed treachery against him as her true self hiding underneath her makeup. Already fed up with his flimsy mother he decides to get rid of his ‘supposed’ whorish beloved by threatening to send her off to a nunnery (whore house). He sends Ophelia on an emotional rollercoaster, where he goes from convincing her he loved her to spitting that love…

Guildenstern to retrieve Prince Hamlet and take him to England immediately. After learning of Polonius’s death, his children, Ophelia and Laertes, change dramatically. Queen Gertrude just witnessed Polonius’s death and is terrified of…

the play, concerning the portrayal of Ophelia and the sexist representation of her. The clever aspect of Shakespeare’s plays is that the madness afflicting just…

Because of his mothers marriage to his uncle, Hamlet is scarred for life in his relationship towards women. When Hamlet comes to Ophelia at her bedroom, acting all ?love? mad, he gets his confirmation (in his opinion) that all women are treacherous and can not be trusted. But Ophelia is also important to give us insight into Hamlets behaviour towards everyone else. She is just a naïve, innocent young girl who doesn?t really understand how to help her lover…

things such as suicide. The major reason of both Hamlet’s and Ophelia’s behaviors, is the relationships with their families; more so in Ophelia’s case, how she is treated by her family. Polonius in the story really showed that he was the boss over Ophelia, being very strict over her. Polonius forced her to stay away from Hamlet and ruined her relationship with him. Ophelia’s bad relationship…

proportions, and great love, towards his love, Ophelia. "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum." -Hamlet. Throughout this play Hamlet portrays his love for Ophelia through different ways. Hamlet had a love so deep that it at often times got overlooked in the depths of reality on the fact that what Hamlet was going through things that made him incapable of truly showing and expressing his love for Ophelia until it was too late. "And…

one might wonder whether Hamlet is in love with Ophelia. Some might say that Hamlet is lovestruck and overcome with his feelings for Ophelia that he cannot function as a normal human. On the contrary, he is in no way lovestruck due to the fact that he can be rather indecisive with how he acts around her. Hamlet’s only motive in this play is to capture the person who murdered his father, not chase after the daughter of a nobleman. While marrying Ophelia, who is the daughter of a nobleman in…