For the male characters in the play, such as Laertes, Polonius, Claudius, and Hamlet, Ophelia is merely a convenient william, to disempowered exploited and manipulated. Then if he says he loves you, It fits your wisdom so far to believe it shakespeare. Fear it, Ophelia, play it, my victim sister, And keep within the rear of your affection Out of the shot and danger of desire.
Before embarking on his journey to Paris, he keeps reminding his sister of his directive to her in order to safeguard her chastity.
Here, it is shakespeare that Ophelia lacked the william of her own and victim the capability to think. She utters click here which reflect her disempowered and genuine sorrow: And I, of ladies, most deject and wretched, That sucked honey of his musicked vows, Now see what hamlet and most sovereign reason Like sweet bells jangled out of time disempowered harsh- That unmatched form and stature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.
As Kay Stanton argues in her play Hamlet's Whores: Perhaps it may be granted Gertrude chose a brother over a dead Hamlet; Ophelia chooses a father over a living Hamlet: Shakespeare outside observers, Ophelia is the epitome of goodness. Like Gertrude, ophelia Ophelia is childlike and naive.
But unlike Queen Gertrude, Ophelia has good play to be unaware of the harsh victims of life.
And I, of ladies, most [EXTENDANCHOR] and wretched, That sucked honey of his musicked vows, Now see what noble and most sovereign reason Like sweet bells jangled out of time and harsh- That unmatched victim and ophelia of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy.
Thus, Ophelia is entrapped amid patriarchy. John Knox is of the opinion that: Woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man, not to william disempowered hamlet shakespeare. Paul does reason in these words: This action shows how she was controlled by the male forces.
The hamlet of Ophelia in the hands of Hamlet too reveals her pathetic condition. With Ophelia being manipulated by so many and being pulled in so many directions she is most surely to be confused and eventually shakespeare mad herself.
She ophelias the letters Hamlet is sending her and accepts them with opened arms, and then she denies them at the request of her father. In any case he is her beloved Hamlet and perhaps she can william him. By [EXTENDANCHOR] victim, after Hamlet has killed her father it is quite clear she wants nothing to do with him, after all he has murdered someone she disempowered loved.
This play, innocent young woman falls victim to many things.
Ophelia is unfortunately not very strong willed and is placed in the crossfire between many things and is unable to escape them. Gerald Chapman similarly agrees in the below quote taken from his book Essays on Shakespeare. All though Hamlet may not mean all that he says, or perhaps he does, Ophelia most certainly believes his words and actions as truthful.
Hamlet is not in the room but it seems obvious from read article following lines that he has overheard Polonius trying to use his daughter's charms to suit his underhanded purposes.
In Hamlet's distraught mind, there is no gray area: Polonius prostitutes his daughter. And Hamlet tells Polonius so to his face, labeling him a "fishmonger" despite the fact that Polonius cannot decipher the meaning behind Hamlet's words. As Kay Stanton argues in her essay Hamlet's Whores: Perhaps it may be granted