Ophelia

Ophelia

1. 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.

2. Ophelia is a sweet and innocent young girl, who obeys her father and her brother, Laertes.

3. Dependent on men to tell her how to behave, she gives in to Polonius’s schemes to spy on Hamlet. Even in her lapse into madness and death, she remains maidenly, singing songs about flowers and finally drowning in the river amid the flower garlands she had gathered.

4. Ophelia's madness is as a result of patriarchal pressure and abuse.

5. Ophelia has issues surviving without a male influence, and her downfall is when all the men in her life abandon her.

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