Narrative Essay About The Necklace

Ophelia was such an innocent character. She was young and naïve. Ophelia was faced with many dilemmas. She was in a relationship with Prince Hamlet, who was very distracted and eventually went mad himself. Ophelia’s madness started with an overbearing, over protective father. He controlled Ophelia and used her with out thinking of her feelings, “I must tell you, you do not understand yourself so clearly…What is

This is the woman she might have become – warm, tolerant and imaginative. Instead she becomes jagged, benighted and imaginative. . . .Ophelia is made mad not only by circumstance but by something in herself. A personality forced into such deep hiding that it has seemed almost vacant, has all the time been so painfully open to impressions that they now usurp her reflexes and take possession

All seven of them were pretending to be one person, a 19-year-old named Ian. Of course, Ophelia believed everything 'Ian' said. She had told them that she never had a boyfriend before, and absolutely loved the attention she was receiving for the first time. Even though she was still young, naive, and too trusting, she was still smart- both academically and morally. Whenever 'Ian' asked for nudes, she refused, which both pissed off and pleased the

Ophelia is controlled by these male characters that insult and hurt her yet, she manages to break free of these men by making a remarkable show of strength; taking her own life.

To begin with, Shakespeare presents Ophelia as an egg with a slight crack in it. She is very smart and aware of things and her surrounding. She is the type of person who can not really hide her feeling and emotions. She would rather suffer in pain and hurt to please her family or the people around her. If was ask Ophelia on question it would be; Why? That was the main question running through minds while reading and watching the play. You can tell Ophelia has a mind and a heart of her own, but she must obey her father and higher powers. Back then in those times women did not have much say or choice in the things that had to do. So not having that much freedom on top of just having a “good girl”, “must do what I am told” prospective on things make Ophelia more of an annoying character.

Ophelia before her father’s death was a very sane girl. Even after Hamlets brutal treatment of her: “Hamlet: You should have not believed me, for virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish it. I loved you not Ophelia: I was the more deceived” (hamlet 3.1.131). Hamlet told her to forget about him. That must have been an unbearable pain, the love of your life to tell you to forget about him god knows how painful that must have truly felt for her. She did not burst into tears or

1) Ophelia thought that she was seeing Hamlet come back from Hell since he was dressed so inappropriately and is now questioning his love for her. Her father thinks that he is deeply in love with her, but the audience knows that Hamlet has just visited the ghost of his father and is now pretending to be insane since he is plotting for revenge.

Ophelia eventually breaks down under all the pressure from her father and brother about her being tricked by Hamlet. Ophelia performs a song about a young woman like her self being fooled unto losing her virginity, “By Cock, they are to blame. / Quoth she, “Before you tumbled me, / You promised me to wed” (IV. V. 45-47).

This demonstrates Polonius’s disregard for his daughter's happiness. It is only later on in the play that people listen to what Ophelia has to say, however it is at this time she appeared to be completely mentally unstable. Not long after people had started to listen to what she had to say, she had drowned and died. This demonstrates how a women’s opinion was not important to anyone in the play. It is when she is crazy that everyone begins to listen to her, which also prove to the audience how women in the play are treated and seen as a lower class citizen.

The scene begins with Gertrude talking with a Gentleman and Horatio. The Queen does not wish to talk to Ophelia due to her mental state, but the Gentleman convinces Gertrude to take pity on Ophelia and speak to her. The Gentleman further explains to the others about how Ophelia has been driven mad by her father’s death, since she is irritable and speaks nonsense. After this, the Queen makes a comment to herself about how she feels that she is guilty and sinful. Ophelia then enters the ballroom dressed in all white with no makeup on and starts to sing riddles. These riddles have meanings that the characters present do not seem to understand completely. The first song Ophelia sings is about how to tell the difference between one’s true lover

Ophelia’s character goes from being a reasonable person, to being molded into someone who seems to have lost their mind. At the beginning of the play, she is considered to be an intelligent and good human being. This can be shown through the love she has for her

character. Ophelia’s dependence on others is, sadly, what lead to her death. She could not

            The play's plot is full of incidents and events that are not what they appear to be. One such incident is Ophelia's ambiguous death. When, from the Queen, the audience first learns of her passing, the girl's death seems very peaceful, poetic and accidental. But later,

Mention the irony of Ophelia's madness and how it gives her a voice in the play.

As a result of spending her life under the protection of her father and his orders, due to her submissive nature, Ophelia remains naive and unaware of the deceit and bitterness surrounding her which renders her incapable of facing the harsh realities of life once her father dies and Hamlet leaves her. After the death of her father and with the absence of both Laertes and Hamlet from her life at the time, Ophelia is driven to madness and Gertrude explains it the King: “She speaks much of her father, says she hears there’s tricks i ' the ' world, and hems, and beats her heart, spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt that carry but half sense.” Finally seeing the grim reality of her surroundings without her father to hide behind, Ophelia loses her sanity and eventually end her own life as she no longer knows how to lead an independent life. In conclusion, Ophelia is portrayed as a puppet on strings being pulled around by the males in her life, making all her decisions and controlling what she can and can’t do, and once all the men are gone, she no longer able to function on her own and she ends her life as a result.