FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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The death of hamlet
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Loss of her brother
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Loss of her father and rejection off hamlet
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She has too many emotions
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ophelia’s descent into madness is caused by her being forced to question what love is and her uncertainty about it, Hamlets mistreatment of Ophelia, and her father’s death. All three combined push her off the edge and into a spiral of madness leading to her untimely death.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ophelia’s madness stems from her lack of identity and her feelings of helplessness regarding her own life. While the death of Hamlet’s father made him angry enough to want revenge, Ophelia internalized the death of her father as a loss of personal identity.
Detailed explanation-3: -On the stage, Ophelia was costumed in virginal white to contrast with Hamlet’s scholarly black, and in her mad scene she entered with dishevelled hair, singing bawdy songs, and giving away her flowers, symbolically deflowering herself. Drowning, too, was a symbolically feminine death.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ophelia was completely devastated over her father’s death, “He is dead, Gone to thy deathbed, He will never come again.” When she is introduced as being mad in the play in Act IV, scene 5, she makes many references to her father’s death through a song she sings.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Nunnery Scene One moment he says ‘I did love you once’, the next ‘I loved you not’. He goes on to insult Ophelia and tells her to go to a nunnery. He tells her that this will be the best place for her and, by being a nun, Ophelia won’t have children and produce wicked men like his uncle.