Hamlet Postcard Secret: Ophelia
My postcard secret is based on the character Ophelia from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. In the play, Ophelia was portrayed as an innocent girl that is naive when it comes to the concept of love. Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is Ophelia’s suitor. From their time together, Ophelia believes that Hamlet truly loves her. Unfortunately for her, the affection that hamlet had been providing her was misleading and as Hamlet spirals into madness, Hamlet’s true thoughts and intentions are revealed. Hamlet did in fact once loved her but his disgust towards the disloyalty of women explains that he does not anymore. Ophelia’s life ends in a tragic demise as she climbed up a willow tree when the branch suddenly broke
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[...] I apologize for all your tears I wish I could be different. But I'm still growing up. Into the one you can call your love. I don't know if I'll ever be enough. I'm throwing in my chips I guess I tend to push my luck.” This quote comes from a song called “Ultimately” by Khai Dreams. This snippet of the lyrics was chosen as it portrays Ophelia’s life and situation very well. As stated before, Ophelia is just a young girl that is confusing Hamlet’s romantic advances for true love. She lacks experience and understanding of Hamlet’s motives and fails to compare them to what love truly is. This part of the song speaks of a similar message of being young and naive. The persona in the song mentions the idea of not know anything and growing up, hinting at inexperience and youth; both of which are characteristics that match Ophelia’s character perfectly. Additionally, Ophelia begins to second guess her idea of love after Polonius tells her not to trust Hamlet. Soon after, Hamlet appears to her like a madman. Despite this, she still wishes for him to be cured of his antic disposition in the line, “Heavenly powers, restore him!” (3.1.153). In “Ultimately” the line, “I'm throwing in my chips I guess I tend to push my luck,” symbolizes Ophelia taking the chance that Hamlet will return to the person she loves. Lastly, during act 3 scene 1 of …show more content…
She represents the universal idea of young and innocent love as well as characteristics of inexperience, optimism, and naivety. Shakespeare diligently crafted such a character to both contrasts the corruption in the play with a pure soul as well as allow the reader to confide in the emotional anguish of such a sweet character such as Ophelia. Through the development of Ophelia through the play, the notion of love is beautifully dismantled before the reader’s eyes; telling a lesson of how false love can end tragically. This thesis is well summarized in the line, “As one incapable of her own distress.” (4.7.203). A relationship, like Ophelia’s life, can end abruptly and without warning, leaving one in disbelief and incapable of understanding what has when wrong. If a relationship is not properly distinguished as unconditional love or just raw romantic affection, a relationship can end in heartbreak and disappointment. In Ophelia’s case, it ended with her life; swept away by the brook once the willow branch broke, away from her dreams of naive love, leaving her empty and devoid of her
When Ophelia returns all his letters and gifts he tells her that he has never loved her and that she should “get thyself to a nunnery.” This is one example how his mood changes throughout the play. Then after all this her father, Polinous, is murdered by Hamlet. The Hamlet is sent away to England All of these actions result in her feeling such stress that she becomes insane in the end.
Because of Hamlet’s actions towards Ophelia in the very beginning of the play is one reason how it can be seen the Hamlet truly does love Ophelia. An example of this can be seen throughout act one of the play. When Ophelia is taking
Ophelia was the daughter of polonius, the love interest of hamlet who was brutally torn up mentally throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel all was well for her as well, her boyfriend was off at college and she was perfectly fine at home with her father. It was until her father took away a note from hamlet to her that things started going downhill. She was a weak person not like hamlet who when faced with injustice takes thing into his own hands to seek justice or revenge. She was a quite simple girl who had a gentler soul.
Hamlet's views on love could be ruined because of his mother's relationship with his father and how she got over him so quickly and married his uncle Claudius. Hamlet is also protecting Ophelia from getting hurt with his plans of revenge or protecting her from his uncle knowing he would use her as a way of hurting him. Hamlet shows his love for Ophelia in many different ways throughout the play. the first way Hamlet shows his love towards Ophelia is with
Hamlet views Ophelia as a naive and ignorant girl who is nothing but Polonius and Claudius's puppet. This was revealed when Hamlet said "God has given you one face and you make yourself another. . You jig and amble, and you lisp, you nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance." (III, i, 143-146) In this quote Hamlet knows that Ophelia is spying on him for Polonius and Claudius.
Did she really love him? Were her emotions confused enough to plunge her into insanity? Ophelia’s actions when she is talking to Hamlet, prove that she is heartbroken that her father is keeping Hamlet from her. When Hamlet denies ever loving her, it seems to send Ophelia into a state of questioning what is real, like her love with Hamlet.
Ophelia goes mad throughout the story. She is overwhelmed by the loss of her father and the rejection of Hamlet. Her character is seen spiraling down a dark path that also ends in death. Ophelia is depicted as not having control over her actions; speaking and acting erratically. While Hamlet is speaking erratically and behaving oddly, he still maintains control over his actions and movement throughout the story.
Ophelia is grieving the loss of her father after Hamlet kills him. Ophelia doesn't know that Hamlet killed her father. But Ophelia has gone mad from learning about her father's death. Also, after Hamlet telling Ophelia that she needs to go to a nunnery, Ophelia is a little bit discouraged. She is discouraged because Hamlet had told her before that if Ophelia would sleep with him that they would get married.
In conclusion, although some may argue differently, Hamlet greatly loved Ophelia. Granted, the love was problematic, but he still loved her. The opposition posed great points, but Hamlet’s behavior, status, courting, and confession proves the point that he loves Ophelia. Hamlet proclamation of love twice seals the case that Hamlet in fact loved Ophelia. In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the reader sees a young prince navigate through the intricate questions of love, and his journey can inspire one to get through their tough questions of life in the
Hamlet has not only become distraught from his conniving and lying stepfather but also his mother, Queen Gertrude as well. The unfaithfulness that Gertrude shows to Hamlet’s father and Hamlet has a toll on him and plays a part in his insanity. The facade that Hamlet displays slowly leads to his insanity, causing him to show mistreated love towards Ophelia. In the beginning of the play, Ophelia displays a very honest
Love is a very strong feeling and it 's portrayed in many ways. In Hamlet, Ophelia, the daughter of Polonius, has fallen for The young Prince Hamlet. In the play, Hamlet confuses us in the beginning because we think he’s just using her for pleasure, and not that he actually has feelings for her. But at the end of the story, we see a whole other side to the story. We see how much he actually loves her and not that he was using her for his own needs.
In her soliloquy, she bemoans what she considers to be Hamlet’s descent into complete insanity. Along with William Shakespeare’s creative and meaningful plot, his way of writing and the inclusion of figurative language bring about a more interesting look to the text. For these first six lines of Ophelia’s soliloquy, Ophelia is describing Hamlet and how he has changed. She starts her soliloquy with “O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!
As a young woman of the 1600’s Ophelia is most likely unaware of the patriarchy that shadows above her. “I do not know my lord, what should I think?”. Ophelia is so unsure about her affair with Hamlet that she
Hamlet does not value Ophelia 's feelings he belittles her. In Hamlets defense this is the way he was brought up to treat women, during that time this was a common way to treat a women. Even though in today 's society it is not at all ok to treat women with such disrespect. He also likes for everything to go as planned and this may result in why he can not have a stable relationship with a woman. This also causes him to have many stumbling blocks in his life that causes some emotional pain
Finally, the last male figure in Ophelia’s life that mistreats her is the title character, Hamlet. In the beginning of the play, the readers discover that Hamlet has