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Ophelia's Madness **
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"Ophelia, walk you here - Gracious so please you,
we will bestow ourselves -
Read on this book,
That show such an exercise may color
Your loneliness" (3.1.45-46).
"For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor,
Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood" (1.2.5-6).
"No, good mother, here's metal more attractive" (3.2.105).
"Lady, shall I lie in your lap?" (3.2.106-07).
"I lov'd Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers
Could not with all their quantity of love
Make up my sum" (5.1.255-56).
"Clamb'ring to hang, an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy trophies and herself" (4.7.173-74).
"A minist'ring angel shall my sister be When thou liest howling" (5.1.225-26).
Ophelia's Madness
Ophelia is the true tragedy
- Why does Ophelia go mad?
- How does it affect the characters?
- How does it affect the plot?
- How does this make Ophelia the true tragedy?
Why does Ophelia go mad?
King
Polonius
Effects of
Characters
Laertes
Hamlet
-causes the revenge plot to unfold
- Hamlet vs Laertes
Hamlet:
- unaware of Ophelia's sudden death
- distraught
- declares his love for her
Gertrude:
- tried to talk to her
- mourns the death of Ophelia
-scatters flowers on her coffin
- wanted her to be Hamlet's wife
How does it affect the
characters?
How does it affect
the plot?
- beginning of the falling action
- causes people and events to unfold
- causes Ophelia to commit suicide
-purity and innocent image is fractured
- death and decay
Laertes:
-rage
- mourns
-seeks revenge
- redeem his families honor
- told what decisions to make
- not responsible for going mad
-driven towards madness
- nobody confides in her
- lonely
-Hamlet, Laertes and Polonious all left her in some way
- starved
How does this make Ophelia
the true tragedy?
- treated poorly
- arguments on the place of burial and burial rites
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