Analysis of Ophelia from Hamlet Essay -- Hamlet William Shakespeare Op

Analysis of Ophelia from small townOphelia is gentle, loving and beautiful. She is also obedient to her father and loyal to her family and it is this which draws her into the circle of disaster and leads to her untimely death. She is deeply in passionateness with juncture and believes his tenders to be sincere, but her obedience to both her father and her brother must come first. Laertes tells her to beware of Hamlets interest as it is driven by lust, not love. He also points out the difference in their background and rightly concludes that Hamlet is not in a position, as heir to the throne to fill freely who he will marry. Polonius is also scornful of Hamlets motives and concerned that he will be discredited by Ophelias conduct. His command to her not to see Hamlet again is brutal, as is his decision to use her as a decoy to sound out the reason for Hamlets eccentric behaviour. The fact that she obeys would be quite intelligible to Shakespeares audience, if not to a present day one, since filial obedience was a fundamental part of the life of the time. Note also how differently Laertes is treated by his father, compared to the lack of regard shown to Ophelia by Polonius. Women had little status, and Ophelias wishes are not considered at any time. Torn apart as she is by divided loyalty it is no wonder that the strain on her eventually leads to her alienation and subsequent death. That she loves Hamlet is without question. She is distraught when she observes his behaviour before the nunnery scene, and after his savage rejection of her in that scene she laments his baronial mind..here oerthrown She also grieves for herself, Oh woe is me, thave seen what I have seen, see what I see. She is sophisticated enough to understand the ways of the world, too, as we see in her dialogue with Hamlet before the mousetrap play, when she obviously understands the meaning of his bawdy remarks, and also in her quick understanding of her brothers likely conduct when he is a way at school. Her madness is triggered by loss of her father, finish offed by Hamlet, whom she also believes to be mad. The pathos of the mad scene is emphasised by the language of loss in roughly of the songs she sings and the overt sexuality of others. In fact the sentiments of Ophelia for Hamlet in the nunnery scene, are, ironically applicable to herself later in the play. Her story paralle... ... Claudius uses these lines to lead Laertes into a plan to deplete Hamlet, asking him what will he do to prove his love for his father in ActIV, scene vii. Hamlet comes back what would you undertake to show yourself in movement your fathers son more than in more than words? It can be easily seen how Laertes, influenced by Claudius in the heat of his anger, could conspire to murder Hamlet and it is in this attempt that Laertes loses his own life to the very poison he kills Hamlet with. Once again, a member of Polonius family loses their life as a result of a conflict that they are ob livious to, making Laertes death a tragedy as well.Contrary to popular belief, the tragedy associated with Hamlet is not about Hamlet or his family. It is, however , about the tragic fate of Polonius family , whose deaths are not the result of any sins they omit but by their existence manipulated by Hamlet and Claudius for reasons they are unaware of. Although the death of Polonius family stands out as being the most tragic, many other characters in the story are killed as well. In fact, the death of a character in Hamlet almost becomes commonplace near the end of the play.