Ophelia's Life Without Honor In Hamlet By William Shakespeare

Ophelia’s role in Hamlet is a very tragic one, because in all honesty, she was one of the most innocent characters of them all. She loved her father dearly, but he was taken away from her by complete accident. As Ophelia’s story progressed, her composure slowly started slipping away from her when she sang to Gertrude and Claudius about her father’s death and starts taking off her clothes (Act 4, scene v). When

2mention again that Ophelia is mourning her father's death. She sings about it, talks about it and even dies for it. She didn't care about anything else except her feelings she had towards this situation. She ended it all by committing suicide. Like the other girls in the play, when Ophelia was asked to do something she obeyed without question. She loved Hamlet a lot but couldn't bear the loss of her father , and in my opinion that makes her strong, she would give her own life just so she wouldn't have to live without her loved one.Similarities. The Queen and Ophelia wish for Hamlet to be happy and for him to go back to being himself again. Everyone around him feels as though he’s

Ophelia's death is tragic but it has no one to blame. The other interpretation is the incident might have been a suicide. Ophelia died, but she was driven mad because of her undying love for Hamlet. The society was very cruel to her and her feelings. Ophelia had unrequited love for Prince Hamlet, and society stupid unreasonable expectation for women and their behavior for the subject

Ophelia can be portrayed as having little power, which is evident in her obedience to her father in 1.3. However, Ophelia's final act is of defiance in her use of flowers to mark the bad qualities of other characters. The symbolism of the flowers is a very feminine way to express that the corruption of Denmark is disguised, much like how the pretty flowers represent something deeper. Ophelia dies a tragic death, but it is unclear whether or not it was suicide, but Shakespeare's imagery depicts her death in a frail beauty, much like the flowers earlier in the act represent qualities such as innocence are

The story of Hamlet is a morbid tale of tragedy, commitment, and manipulation; this is especially evident within the character of Ophelia. Throughout the play, Ophelia is torn between obeying and following the different commitments that she has to men in her life. She is constantly torn between the choice of obeying the decisions and wishes of her family or that of Hamlet. She is a constant subject of manipulation and brain washing from both her father and brother. Ophelia is not only subject to the torture of others using her for their intentions but she is also susceptible to abuse from Hamlet. Both her father and her brother believe that Hamlet is using her to achieve his own personal goals.

Not only is Ophelia's death marked much less significant than the other male deaths noted in the previously mentioned articles, but Ophelia’s death is articulated as a passive accident, one that happened to occur, to no avail. Every other death in the play is met with vigorous analysis and criticism, unphased by the death of Ophelia, inadvertently caused by men. Ophelia is also described as “mermaid-like” adding to the previously set notion that women are sexual objects- even at death. At this point of the play, Hamlet proclaims in a bipolar and seemingly fraudulent manner that he has always loved Ophelia (although he ordered her to “get thee to a nunnery” and was the root of her abrupt madness and suicide), while Laertes threatens that he loved Ophelia more. The attention and passion are still not recognized and respected with Ophelia even after her death but is used as a game between two men to satisfy their guilt and build their ego, competing for the love of Ophelia that was only disrespected when she was

Ophelia copes with these facts through song. Throughout the act, Ophelia sings songs about death, flowers, and love. She suffers through grief and betrayal, knowing that her once beloved Hamlet was the reason behind her dear father’s death. Her madness concerns her brother Laertes, who now not only wants to fight to avenge his father, but to also bring pain to the man who afflicted his sister with her sense of madness. Ophelia’s strange condition has also been noticed by Claudius.

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.

Shakespeare's Hamlet is a tale of mortal revenge, lost souls, love and infidelity, and murder in the royal family. Hamlet, his father having recently died, is mourning the marriage of his mother to his uncle. When his father's ghost appears to him and tells him he must avenge the former king's spirit so that it may pass on to Heaven, he decides to put on an "antic disposition" so that no one will know what he is thinking. As time goes by, he cannot move himself to act upon his revenge and is tormented by his indecisiveness and ineptitude. Among all of this, what is the role of Ophelia, the young maiden, and daughter of the King's advisor, Hamlet's former sweetheart? She seems to appear out of

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.

It is widely believed that “Living life without honor is a tragedy bigger than death itself” and this holds true for Hamlet’s Ophelia. Ophelia’s death symbolizes a life spent passively tolerating Hamlet’s manipulations and the restrictions imposed by those around her, while struggling to maintain the last shred of her dignity. Ophelia’s apathetic reaction to her drowning suggests that she never had control of her own life, as she was expected to comply with the expectations of others. Allowing the water to consume her without a fight alludes to Hamlet’s treatment of Ophelia as merely a device in his personal agenda. Her apparent suicide denotes a desire to take control of her life for once. Ophelia’s death is, arguably, an honorable one,

n obedient daughter. While Hamlet used Ophelia as a sexual object and never viewed her as a human being. When her father is killed by Hamlet, Ophelia is lost at life. All she knew was to take orders from her father and now that her master is gone she is lost and returned to the childhood of silly songs and flowers. She simply doesn't know how to deal with her life now, everything she knew came from her father and her dignity was built of him as well.

One reason for Ophelia’s death was Hamlet. As part of his madness, he frightened Ophelia “As if he had been loosed out of hell/ To speak of horrors…” (Shakespeare 43). He did this for his own benefit, not thinking about the toll it would take on her. Another reason why hamlet caused her to commit suicide was the dirty, insulting comments he made

character. Ophelia’s dependence on others is, sadly, what lead to her death. She could not

Ophelia is controlled by these male characters that insult and hurt her yet, she manages to break free of these men by making a remarkable show of strength; taking her own life.