father’s death. Part of the tragedy of Hamlet revolves around the character Ophelia and his relationship with her. Usually, critics regard the tragedy of this subplot to stem from Hamlet’s loss of love. Elaine Showalter notes that Ophelia is only present in 5 of the 20 scenes in the play and that very little...
Manipulation of Ophelia Manipulation occurs everywhere in the world. It is both a subject of reality, and of literature. In literary works, characters with certain characteristics are more likely to be manipulated. These traits are with the character in the beginning of the story, which make...
Hamlet Essay Plan ‘Tragedy often contains subplots. To what extent does the subplot concerning Ophelia contribute to the audience’s understanding of the tragedy?’ Intro- Helps to a great extent- Ophelia’s subplot compliments and contrats to that of Hamlet’s. Key points to come back to: They are...
Reviving Ophelia Fsmith Adolescence and Identity Abstract In this paper I will take information in which I have obtained from reading Mary Piphers, Ph.D. Reviving Ophelia Saving The Selves of Adolescent Girls and elaborate on some of her main points and arguments. I will also discuss whether...
Beth Hernandez 12/3/05 Period 0 Inside the Mind of Ophelia August 20, 1570 Just yesterday our great King Hamlet has died. My dear poor Hamlet, caught in distraught over his father’s mysterious death. It doth seem quite unusual. There was no trace of sickness the week...
Hamlets girlfriend is Ophelia. Her father Polonious and her brother Laertes try to convince her that Hamlet doesn’t lover her. They point out that because he is the prince he can’t marry whoever he wants. They think he is more likely to seduce her than marry her. Ophelia agrees not to talk to Hamlet...
Horatio and the others not to speak of what has happened, even if he should behave strangely. Polonius bids farewell to Laertes and warns his daughter Ophelia against Hamlet’s courtship. Later, she tells Polonius of a strange visitation by Hamlet, and Polonius reports to the King and Queen that rejected love...
madness. Hamlet’s madness has affected everybody, however he thinks that no one is suspicious upon him towards his actions. In (Act 2 scene 2 120-122) Ophelia talks to Polonius where she says “ No, my lord, but as you did command, I did repel his letters and denied, His access to me” Polonius replies in (...
socially and politically. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, the women have major influence in shaping Hamlet’s behavior. Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, and Ophelia, Hamlet’s girlfriend negatively affected Hamlet and his decisions and actions throughout the play. Gertrude has a negative influence on Hamlet...
liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent. Be wary then; best safety lies in fear: Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. OPHELIA I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the...
and his feelings towards: a) His father b) Claudius c) His mother d) Ophelia During acts 1 to 3, Hamlet’s state of mind fluctuates when expressing feelings for his father, his uncle Claudius, his mother Gertrude and Ophelia. Each person that Hamlet refers to is treated differently by Hamlet. It...
fair, and uphold the most beauty. There are only two women who are important in Hamlet, the queen and loving mother Gertrude and the beautiful, young Ophelia. Although they may be big characters, they do not have big roles. Both are used by the men, manipulated for the men's needs. They do not say much,...
Ophelia and Laertes have a different relation to Hamlet however find themselves in some way trapped in the same circumstances as Hamlet. Ophelia, the daughter of Polonius who is the King's trusted councilo and is later killed in the play and he forbids his daughter to see Hamlet because of the possibility...
Hamlet’s main goal in life, until he becomes insane due to his love for Ophelia. However, at first Hamlet states that he is not in love with Ophelia and tries to prove this by banning marriage and ordering her to become a nun. Ophelia, however, states her love for Hamlet by saying, “ He hath, my lord, of...
his daughter.” Her father and brother believed that Hamlet would use Ophelia taking her virginity and then discarding her because she could never be his wife but her heart convinced her otherwise. To her father and brother, Ophelia is the eternal virgin but to Hamlet, she is a sexual object, one for...
who poisoned his father, he causes everything to end up in chaos. He causes surrounding people who are harmless to die, he destroys the love between Ophelia and himself and ruins his lover，and he reverses his own moral world. First of all, the initial intention of Hamlet’s revenge is to kill the murderer...
love for Ophelia. Ophelia was a women who represented pure innocence and honest, but for Hamlet that was exactly what he wasn’t. So with the tension built up from the forbidden love between Hamlet and Ophelia there was also the fact in Act II Scene I, Ophelia had an interaction with Hamlet. Ophelia said...
to the litany of excess and violence in the world around her. She is only out for self-preservation; happiness is the only thing she will accept. Ophelia is the inverse as she is the pinnacle of innocence in the Victorian era, she is seen as sexually innocent and loyal to only her family. Unfortunately...
influenced all the characters to act the way they did. If Claudius did not murder his brother then Hamlet could not have pretended to go mad and drive Ophelia to madness and kill several people, therefore the responsibility for all the tragedy is due solely to the murder most foul of King Hamlet by Claudius...
madness stems from his longing for revenge. The murder of his father Polonius and death of his sister causes Laertes to loose his ability to reason. Ophelia, Laertes’ sister is a weak and fragile woman. Her dependence on her father, brother, and Hamlet prove to be the cause of her downfall and madness....
Summary: Act IV, scene v Gertrude and Horatio discuss Ophelia. Gertrude does not wish to see the bereaved girl, but Horatio says that Ophelia should be pitied, explaining that her grief has made her disordered and incoherent. Ophelia enters. Adorned with flowers and singing strange songs, she seems...
women, Gertrude and Ophelia, enter into his world, so he used their characteristics as a complete character assessment of all women. Hamlet directs the insult "frailty thy name is women" at Gertrude, and in some ways this remark is justified. Hamlet hasmuch affection towards Ophelia. In the nunnery scene...
Hamlet Essay In Hamlet there is no tragedy until the first death. The deaths occur in this order: Polonius, Ophelia, Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Hamlet. All but one of deaths could have been a voided. The one unavoidable death is that of Claudius, but it could of ended differently. The...
used more than once. A. Hamlet B. Claudius C. Polonius D. Laertes E. Horatio AB. Marcellus AC. Fortinbras AD. Gertrude AE. Ophelia BC. Denmark (the country) BD. Norway BE. Elsinore CD. King Hamlet (Ghost) CE. Voltemand and Cornelius DE. Rosencrantz...
accept it. Scene 3 Summary: This scene shows Laertes leaving Ophelia and telling her to let go of Hamlet. Also Ophelia’s father tells her that Hamlet only wants to have fun with her and that he will not be there for long term. Ophelia listens to her father and promises to let go of Hamlet. Character...
time. After Polonius is dead, Ophelia seems to have gone insane. She goes to see the queen and begins to sing a song, “He is dead and gone, lady, / He is dead and gone, / At his head a grass-green turf, / At his heels a stone.” (Shakespeare, IV.v.28-31). Ophelia begins to sing a song that states...
rejects his lover, Ophelia and then suffers from what appears to be madness, and he constantly questions his fathers ghosts desire to take revenge and kill his uncle, as his education, morals and fear of death prevent him from murdering another person. Hamlet kills Polonius, Ophelia and Laertes father...
own life, that of his mother Gertrude, his prospective brother-in-law Laertes, and his prospective father-in-law Polonius. In the process, his lover Ophelia becomes genuinely insane. The only redeeming feature in this tragedy is that Hamlet assures that Denmark is left in capable hands. The scenes...
sadistic tones in reaction to the rest of the world. Ophelia, who is supposedly the women who Hamlet loves, comes into play when her brother, Laertes, and her father Polonius, begin to voice their disapproval of their love affair. Laertes promises Ophelia his love for her is shallow and her father only reinforces...
havoc. Hamlet then starts to become mad. There are many parts in the play that depict hamlet’s madness. One example is when Hamlet insists that Ophelia goes into a nunnery. He tries to do this so she does not get involved with his mistakes. Whether his madness is real or fake is truly unknown but...
scene, Hamlet must confront his own mortality, being faced with the reminder of the death of Yorick and later with the ripe death of his now beloved Ophelia. He realizes as he clutches Yorick’s skull that even such a man of as infinite jest as Yorick is susceptible to this circuitous decaying process...
security camera instead of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Then in the movie when Ophelia died and they buried her and Laeretes and Hamlet started to push each other down a hill instead of fighting in Ophelia's grave. Then Ophelia drowned in a shallow fountain and in the play she drowned in a lake. Then in...
ghost of course must be a figment of the imagination and definite proof of Hamlet's madness In Act III Scene 1, true madness comes into play. Once Ophelia meets Hamlet and speaks with him her love abandons her. Hamlet realizes that his mother and step father are aware of this love and might use this to...
first indication of Hamlet's deterioration is his abrupt and violent confrontation with Ophelia. No man in his right mind would treat a woman this way even if she rejected his love. His confrontation with Ophelia leads to Polonius' idea of sending Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet in an...
standard revenge plot, the play's core is an intense psychodrama about a prince gone mad from the pressures of his station and his unrequited love for Ophelia. He longs for the ultimate release of killing himself - but why? In this respect, Hamlet is equivocal - he gives several different motives depending...
intellectual, and extremely trustworthy. Hamlet was secretly deeply in love with the recently departed Ophelia, beloved sister of Laertes and daughter of Polonious, who are both sadly not with us. Hamlet loved Ophelia much more than he let on, and it is unfortunate that his inability to express his love for her...
Hamlet’s madness allows him to talk to Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, and Polonius in a manner unsuitable for a prince. He is often disrespectful and insulting in his remarks. During the play he even makes blatant sexual remarks towards Ophelia such as “That’s a fair thought to lie between maids’ legs”...
clever lad, who was playing a psychological game with an old fool. He asked Polonius whether or not he had a daughter, pretending he did not know that Ophelia was Polonius's daughter”. Polonius asks Hamlet, “What do you read, my lord?” and Hamlet responds, “Words, words, words!”. Hamlet “was playing a fool...
The Lord Chamberlain, Polonius, proposes that Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter, Ophelia. Claudius decides to spy on Hamlet in conversation with the girl. However, Hamlet does not seem to love Ophelia. He orders her to enter a nunnery and wishes to ban marriages. A group of traveling actors...
his uncle, King Claudius, Polonius, Laertes, and his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Additionally, although it is not by his own hand, both Ophelia, the love of Hamlet’s life, and his mother, Queen Gertrude, take their own lives. Eventually, Hamlet himself dies as a result of a backfired plot to...
to Laertes and said; “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?” This comes after Laertes made it sound as if you are the reason for his sisters’ death. I understand that you loved Ophelia, Hamlet, I just worry that losing...
dislike to his uncle, which will later help Hamlet with achieving his revenge. The next time that this distance from others is seen in Hamlet is when Ophelia is talking with Laertes and later Polonius. They both tell her that Hamlet and her cannot and will not be together, it is not possible because of the...
fury and frustration. Sudden anger prompts them to act spontaneously. Leartes and Hamlet both share a deep love and concern for Ophelia. Leartes provides lengthy advice to Ophelia before leaving for France although both individuals despise each other they are both infatuated with her. . Leartes is also...
meeting with Ophelia while his uncle and Polonius are hiding behind a curtain. Hamlet somehow suspects the eavesdroppers, just as he suspects that Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are sent by the King and Queen to question him and investigate the cause of his supposed madness. His feelings for Ophelia have already...
any remarks in relation to his “antic disposition (1.5.172)” this seems to be part of his initial plan of madness allows him to talk to Polonius, Ophelia, Gertrude, and Claudius, in a prince should not speak to anyone around him. He is often disrespectful and insulting in his remarks. Although his acting...
decay. Hamlet is, or until recently has been, in love with Ophelia. This is arguably the only positive in Hamlet’s life when the play begins. But we soon learn that both Laertes and Polonius are suspicious of his motives and warn Ophelia that he cannot be trusted. As a dutiful sister and daughter...
keep them in the South or, better yet, return them to the land of their forefathers once they were freed. This attitude is clear in Stowe’s book—Ophelia flatly states it. What we have seen in these books is tremendous racial hatred in the North. We see in Jacobs’ book that Linda’s brother was driven...
The protagonist is usually easy enough to identify, but the antagonist can be somewhat more difficult to identify, in Hamlet, Claudius, Horatio, Ophelia, Laertes, Polonius, and Gertrude, all of them can be called antagonists, which means they are not the most important in this play and they act as supporting...
was perfect for the play and set up well to attempt finding out why the young Hamlet was so depressed since his mother Gertrude had no idea. Also Ophelia, Laertes, and their Polonius acting skills are mocked well. First being a young male Laertes is concerned about his younger sister being “blind” about...
and rotten and it adds itself to the suggestion again of deathly images surrounding our protagonist. Another interesting part of the play is when Ophelia is handing out symbolic flowers in Act Four Scene Five when she has lost her mind, each flower symbolising something different that relates to each...
accompany his relationship with the King. However, the rules of karma are applied and justice is served to Polonius mid-way through the play. Also, Ophelia, under the influence of her father and brother, is misled in her own decisions in life. Had she not listened to the advice and suggestions of her father...
them and so thinks ahead and anticipates events. In interplay with Rosencrantz, Guildenstern and Polonius, and perhaps with Claudius, Gertrude and Ophelia, Hamlet has asides to draw attention to what dialogue cannot express(55-56). Marchette Chute describes the opening scene of the drama: “For...
Claudius, thus the sudden change in his character. What we can see here is death trigging deaths, first, Polonius is accidentally killed, and then Ophelia died and the chain continues, eventually leading up to Hamlet’s death. In conclusion, the Shakespearean work of Hamlet is solely based upon revenge...
moment's danger…." Billington felt Pennington erred on side of caution: "Hamlet's fear of emotional excess seems to be confining Pennington himself." Ophelia really goes madness which ultimately leads to her death this also leaves a question of whether it was an accident or suicide. The main motivation behind...
Ophelia too is used by Polonius in order to determine the cause of Hamlet's madness and perhaps to further his prospects and favor with the monarchs. Ophelia unconsciously is used as a pawn, her emotions sacrificed in order for others to discover the truth and motives of Hamlet. Ophelia talks...
at this topic and go beyond the obvious. 5. Examine the character of Ophelia. What is her relationship with her father and brother? What is her relationship with Hamlet? With Gertrude? Write a character sketch of Ophelia using very specific lines and examples from the play to support your points...
hear Hamlet speak to Ophelia. This action of spying on Hamlet leads me to believe that Claudius is a conniving person. I think this is a good example that starts to show Claudius as a person who is not genuine in his concerns for others. After hearing Hamlet speak to Ophelia Claudius decides to send...
reaction to the ambiguous players around him that are out to deceive, namely Claudius and his servant Polonius, or perhaps Polonius’ servant and daughter Ophelia. Hamlet’s needs are animalistic in their raw intensity; the absolute requirement to kill Claudius, or even the suggested Oedipus complex involving...
were not so unique it was the language the he use to put the setting and emotion of the character (wisegeek.com). For Example this quote from Hamlet Ophelia, Act I, scene 3 “Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself...
Excluding Hamlet’s acting as a mad man, there are four main characters within “Hamlet” that hide behind the “mask” of character: Polonius (father of Ophelia), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (colleagues of Hamlet), and Claudius (the murderer and current king of Denmark). Even though these characters masquerade...