FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Wick
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The actor playing Prince Hamlet
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The actor playing Ophelia
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Shakespeare
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Detailed explanation-1: -She is a naïve girl who wants to please both her father and her boyfriend Hamlet. She behaves innocently and is not trying to use her feminine nature to deceive or control a man as Hamlet suspected. Ophelia is loyal to her father and brother who raised her.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is her attempt at gaining agency and a voice in the only way she can-through symbols of her femininity because she is constantly seen as only a woman and not an individual. Ophelia’s voice blossoms through her womanhood and through the language of flowers and song, both linked to feminine sexuality.
Detailed explanation-3: -To her father and brother, Ophelia is the eternal virgin, the vessel of morality whose purpose is to be a dutiful wife and steadfast mother. To Hamlet, she is a sexual object, a corrupt and deceitful lover. With no mother to guide her, she has no way of deciphering the contradictory expectations.