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Hamlet's Ophellia

Ophelia: A Victim of Circumstance.

In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the character of Ophelia is the most tragic of

all characters. Ophelia is a victim of her life's circumstance. Having no mother to guide

her, she lacks a sense of self needed to navigate the rough waters of relationships. This is

evident in the choices she makes and by the way she allows the men in her life to treat

her.

She is in a constant search for the approval of the men in her lives. She is engaged

in a struggle between her loyalty to her father and her love for Hamlet. As a result of

being weak willed, this struggle leads to her demise.

From the outset of the play, her identity is defined by external forces and is

constructed by societal influences of the times. Motherless and limited by the men in her

life, she has been shaped to abandon her own desires in order to appease the desires of

others. Her father and brother control Ophelia in an almost......


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