Ophelia In Hamlet

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, there were many important characters just like Hamlet who show up in more than three-fourths of the play; but there are also characters that don’t necessarily show up as much but still have a strong role. One of the characters that didn’t get as much screen time but was still important was Ophelia. Ophelia was a sister, girlfriend, and daughter that so many people loved. Therefore, Despite the lack of presence of Ophelia, she ultimately played a big role in the lives of a lot of the characters.

Ophelia is another character who shows signs of mental weakness throughout the play. She is also seen as someone who is weak and dependent on other people. The fuel behind Ophelia's madness was due to the fact Hamlet had rejected her. Another big event that contributed to her madness was the death of her father. The audience gets a sense that she is reliant on men, and this can be seen through her relationship with Hamlet.

From historical events such as World War I and World War II to present day women have been playing prominent roles. During the 14th and 15th centuries women had no important roles in their families, they were only used to take care of their families and to use their body for sex for men. A women mostly always needed a man by her side to stay stable and strong, otherwise they are known to be weak without them.

Ophelia is painted as a weak character by Shakespeare and doesn't know what to believe. Hamlet killed her father which causes a larger rift between Hamlet and Ophelia. She spirals downward and eventually goes insane and kills herself. Ophelia's words are not listened to and believed which helps to pave the way for her eventual mental health breakdown.

During the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the stage was used as a way to break the barriers of gender norms. In his creation of Hamlet, Shakespeare uses the voice of Ophelia as a means to battle the gender norms that had been placed on Elizabethan society. A good women was seen as someone that was quiet and submissive. If a man could not control a woman’s tongue, there would be no chance that the man would be able to control her body. Though Ophelia’s character was more than capable of exhibiting reason, the control that her father, Polonius, held over her let Ophelia to the the madness that would claim her life by the end of the play. On the other side of the gender spectrum, Hamlet, a prince that should be have been more than capable of

In The Tragedy of Hamlet, Shakespeare developed the story of prince Hamlet, and the murder of his father by the king's brother, Claudius. Hamlet reacted to this event with an internal battle that harmed everyone around him. Ophelia was the character most greatly impacted by Hamlet's feigned and real madness - she first lost her father, her sanity, and then her life. Ophelia, obedient, weak-willed, and no feminist role model, deserves the most pity of any character in the play.

In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia is the most static character in the play. Instead of changing through the course of the play, she remains suffering in the misfortunes perpetrated upon her. She falls into insanity and dies a tragic death. Ophelia has issues surviving without a male influence, and her downfall is when all the men in her life abandon her. Hamlet’s Ophelia, is a tragic, insane character that cannot exist on her own.

In "No Fear Shakespeare Hamlet" Ophelia is just a innocent victim that acts on what people tell her to do and don’t respond to what she want. Hamlet and Ophelia's love was real and not a lust but she let people manipulate her. When you love somebody they will do whatever it takes to protect and support there loved one and Ophelia played victim of loving Hamlet.

Shakespeare places many interesting characters in his plays. Claudius, Polonius, Marcellus, and Reynaldo are a few from his play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. However, Ophelia appears to be the most innocent all throughout the play. This character has either indirectly or directly affected the lives of every main characters in the script. Ophelia’s character is portrayed as obedient, maidenly, and a mad young girl.

Ophelia from the play “Shakespeare” plays an important female role. She is a beautiful young woman with innocence. She deals with struggles that most young women don’t have to deal with. Ophelia changes immensely throughout the play. Ophelia is torn between Hamlet and her family, causing conflict with both relationships and affecting her thought process to drive her mentally insane.

The audience and the characters of the play see what true madness looks like when Ophelia’s father, Polonius, gets killed by Hamlet. Ophelia cared about her family and also Hamlet, so when Hamlet unintentionally killed Polonius, it drove Ophelia to go truly mad. Throughout the play, Polonius warns Ophelia about Hamlet and how he feels about their relationship and he tried to keep them away from each other. Ophelia disregards her father’s warnings and continues to stay with Hamlet, and she goes insane when she is notified about her father’s death. “Ophelia: Say you?

To begin with, Ophelia is a character from the Shakespeare classic Hamlet. She is perceived as a young woman who is kind hearted and obedient towards the male characters within the story. These characteristics cause her to be seen as the victim of the male characters who revolve around the story of Hamlet.

as these lines relate back to the development of Ophelia’s character, as well as play an important role in the plot of the play, and a major conflict that is portrayed.

The play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, looks at the issue of madness and how it effects the characters of the play. Madness can be looked at from very different perspectives, such as strong and uncontrollable emotions, a person’s desires, and also a persons mental stability. Throughout the play, the audience is questioning the sanity of the main character, Hamlet, as he goes on his quest for revenge. The people around him also show signs of madness, such as Ophelia and Claudius, but in different forms. Existentialist philosopher Friedrich Nietzche says, “There is always some madness in love. But there is also some reason in madness.” What Nietzche is saying is that when you are in love with someone or something, there is always a little

William Shakespeare's Hamlet is taught nationwide in high schools and colleges for a plethora of reasons ranging from its vocabulary to its cultural and historical significance. There are plenty of books that have a high vocabulary and historical background, but the universal themes that have stood the test of time have set Hamlet apart from other literature. Government monarchies and believing in ghosts may be a way of the past. However, Hamlet’s universal ideas, such as love, loyalty, revenge and justice, strike a chord with most, if not everyone, in today’s society.