Essay on Hamlet and its Ophelia -- Essays on Shakespeare Hamlet

Hamlet and its Ophelia In Shakespeares Hamlet on that point is an innocent young lady who comes to an undeserved and unbecoming end. She is Ophelia, the subject of this essay. Bryan N. S. Gooch in Review of The Shapes of Revenge Victimization, Vengeance, and Vindictiveness in Shakespeare, presents Ophelia as the powerless dupe Harry Keyishian . . . clearly presents in Chapter I, Victimization and Revenge Renaissance Voices, a useful survey of the problem, drawing from books on the passions and moving on to strike non just the power of the revenger but the powerlessness of victims, e.g., the Duchess of Gloucester, Ophelia. . . . (1). Helena Faucit (Lady Martin) in On Some of Shakespeares Female Characters comments on the misunderstood character of Ophelia My views of Shakespeares women break been wont to take their shape in the living portraiture of the stage, and not in words. I have, in imagination, lived their lives from the very beginning to the end and Ophelia, as I have pictured her to myself, is so unlike what I strain and read about her, and have seen represented on the stage, that I behind scarcely hope to make any one think of her as I do. It hurts me to hear her spoken of, as she a good deal is, as a weak creature, wanting in truthfulness, in purpose, in force of character, and only interesting when she loses the little wits she had. And yet who can wonder that a character so delicately outlined, and shaded in with touches so fine, should be often gravely misunderstood? (186) Ophelia enters the play with her brother Laertes, who, in parting for school, bids her farewell and gives her advice regarding her relationship with Hamlet. Ophelia agrees to ab... ...-30. Lehmann, Courtney and Lisa S. Starks. Making Mother Matter Repression, Revision, and the Stakes of Reading Psychoanalysis Into Kenneth Branaghs Hamlet. earliest Modern Literary Studies 6.1 (May, 2000) 2.1-24 <URL http//purl.oclc.org/emls/06-1/lehmhaml.htm>. Pennington, Michael. Ophelia Madness Her Only Safe Haven. Readings on Hamlet. Ed. Don Nardo. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1999. Rpt. of Hamlet A Users Guide. New York calcium light Editions, 1996. Pitt, Angela. Women in Shakespeares Tragedies. Readings on The Tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1996. Reprint of Shakespeares Women. N.p. n.p., 1981. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. mom Institute of Technology. 1995. http//www.chemicool.com/Shakespeare/hamlet/full.html No line nos.