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Ophelia in Hamlet

Ophelia in Hamlet. What makes Ophelia a good and appropriate choice for use in Dr. Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia ? The answer may lie in how she is treated by others in her community; she has relatively no power in her culture. . Hamlet.

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Ophelia in Hamlet

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  1. Ophelia in Hamlet What makes Ophelia a good and appropriate choice for use in Dr. Mary Pipher’s Reviving Ophelia? The answer may lie in how she is treated by others in her community; she has relatively no power in her culture.

  2. Hamlet • Prince Hamlet of Denmark is urged by his father’s Ghost to avenge his murder at the hands of the dead king’s brother, now King Claudius; to make matters worse, Claudius has married the widow, Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude. To this end, Hamlet feigns madness, eschews his beloved, Ophelia (sister to Laertes and daughter to Polonius), and begins to see if he should kill Claudius. • Ophelia goes insane after Hamlet’s departure and her father’s death (via Hamlet).

  3. Ophelia is counseled first by her brother, Laertes, and next by her father, Polonius, to stay away from Hamlet. Ophelia agrees to obey her father’s charge. Act 1, Scene 3 Joseph Severn’s Ophelia

  4. Ophelia is frightened by an unkempt and disturbed Hamlet, who may have come to say goodbye to her as he is now charged with bringing his father’s murderer to justice and fears the distraction of other relationships. Arthur Hughes’s Ophelia Act 2, Scene 1

  5. Ophelia is compelled by her father and king to determine whether Hamlet’s madness has been caused by her dismissal of him. After witnessing Hamlet’s treatment of her, the king concludes that there must be some other reason for Hamlet’s insanity. John Waterhouse’s Ophelia Act 3, Scene 1

  6. Ophelia is treated very disrespectfully by Hamlet publicly, as they prepare to watch a theatrical performance that Hamlet believes will prove the king’s guilt in the murder of Hamlet’s father. Another Waterhouse Ophelia Act 3, Scene 2

  7. Ophelia, after experiencing his public humiliation of her and after learning of Hamlet’s murder of her father, goes insane herself. She begins behaving wantonly and crazily before the court Madeleine Lemaire’s Ophelia Act 4, Scene 5

  8. Hamlet returns to learn that Ophelia has died, apparently killing herself by drowning as harvesting flowers along the riverbank. Hamlet and Laertes then fight in her grave prior to her internment. John Everett Millais’s Ophelia Act 5, Scene 1

  9. Ophelia, because of her position as a young unmarried woman within a patriarchal society, is torn by multiple and conflicting directives and loyalties. Her king Her father Her brother Her boyfriend When those multiple directives fail or disappear, she is lost. She goes insane and then dies, experiencing two theorized solutions for women’s freedom from patriarchy. Conclusions

  10. More Art Inspired by Ophelia • For more art inspired by Ophelia, see http://www.boingyboingy.com/jump/ophelia_art.html Henry Nelson O’Niel’s Ophelia

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