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Ashley Chu Benhaire Estrada Merchelle Alegado November 1 st 2012 AP Literature Analysis Ophelia is a dynamic character that begins as in innocent young girl to becoming an insane individual Shes dependent on men to tell her how to behave She is the daughter of Polonius the sister of Laertes as well as Hamlets love interest Ophelia is caught between her obedience to her father and her love Hamlet which leads to her madness and death She remains maidenly singing songs about flower and finally drowning in the river . Man with a plan or just a ‘mad’ man?. Themes. What is madness?. Power (love, sex, corruption of, desire of). Revenge. Murder. Women (role, view). Deception/Trust. Certainty/Uncertainty. Action vs. Reaction and the need to act. By: Amber Edmunds. Quote 1. Quote 4. Quote 3. Quote 6. Quote 5. Quote 2. Quote 8. Quote 9. Quote 7. Quote 10. Poem 1. Poem 2. There is a willow grows aslant a brook, . That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;. An Adventure in SLO Land . Written. by Jana Scott . . . . Once upon a time, in a very distant K-12 school district, there lived a beautiful 6. th. grade English Language Arts teacher who had been teaching for two years. She had hair as black as a raven’s wing, eyes as blue as cobalt, and skin as fair as ivory. . A caring father or a self-obsessed deceiver?. Polonius. Position:. A father to Ophelia and Laertes. The kings right hand man. Characteristics:. Persistent- Continuously tries to prove Hamlet is crazy. Brown and Bev. Representing Ophelia-. Elaine showalter. Ophelia literally has no story without Hamlet. Shakespeare offers very little information from which to imagine a past for Ophelia. Cultural links between femininity, female sexuality, insanity, and representation. Paniz. , Matt, Josh, Erin. Ophelia . Quotation #1 – Act 1, Scene 3. Ophelia:. “I shall the effect of this good lesson keep. As . warchman. to my heart. But good my brother,. Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,. Characters. Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes, Horatio. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern – . Friends of Hamlet, spying for Claudius..  Reynaldo - . Messenger for Polonius to Laertes, also going to spy on Laertes and make up . Yuzuka. . Ieta. Hamlet Act 4 Scene 5. Summary. Ophelia has gone mad with grief of her dead father. Ophelia approaches Gertrude but speaks only in poems and songs. Claudius enters and comments on Ophelia’s madness but also states that . By: Andrea Carlin and Tristin drake. Thesis. In Hamlet, written by Shakespeare, the female characters Ophelia and Gertrude both have intimate connections with Hamlet; Ophelia as his love-interest and Gertrude as his mother. The two women are foils to each other since Ophelia is an innocent and obedient maiden who dies under the hands of a powerful man, whereas to Hamlet, Gertrude is seen as promiscuous and unfaithful to her late husband by remarrying Claudius, who is also a powerful man who happened to kill her.. Ophelia doesn’t feature much in the play but her role is to show “. Hamlet's warped view of women as callous sexual predators, and the innocence and virtue of . women” – Shakespeare-online.com. /Whore . Dichotomy. in . Hamlet. Thesis. In Shakespeare’s play, . Hamlet. , the two female characters Gertrude and Ophelia possess characteristics of the “angel”, or the ideal renaissance woman. This is ironic because the “ideal renaissance woman” would not have a large impact on society, as Gertrude and Ophelia do on the plot of Hamlet. This shows that Hamlet transcends the binary model because both Gertrude and Ophelia show characteristics of both, the angel and the whore.. Advice. Laertes. : For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favor, / Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, / A violet in the youth of . primy. nature, / Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / The perfume and . Trey Songz- Made To Be Together. Cold winter nights by myself blankets just wont do . i. need your help cause I don’t want to miss the way your body feels no . morrreeeuhhhh. Ophelia . is heartbroken by hamlet and it makes her depressed and crazy . Next Steps and Implications for Education Providers. Dr Carlene Firmin MBE. Senior Research Fellow and Head of MsUnderstood Partnership . @. carlenefirmin. . @. uniofbedsCSE. NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT AUTHOR PERMISSION.