Ophelia And Mental Illness

She falls in love with Hamlet, but begins turning away from him because he has become mad from losing his father; yet, no one can figure out why. Ophelia has empathy for Hamlet, but does not really experience his pain until her own father is killed. Ophelia instantly turns crazy from the shock of losing her father so suddenly. Her form of grief shows that she really cares for her father, and he was truly all she had. The news that Ophelia is losing her mind spreads throughout the kingdom and the queen starts to become concerned. As Gertrude is talking with the gentleman about Ophelia, he explains to her that, “She speaks much of her father, says she hears/ There’s tricks i’ the world, and hems and beats her hear,/ Spurns enviously at straws, speaks things in doubt” (IV.v.4-6). He is explaining that since her father’s death, she has become to hate the world she lives in realizing that it has nothing to offer her. Gertrude and Claudius also realize that her father must have meant a great deal to her to cause her to respond like this. Claudius says, “O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs/ All from her father’s death” (IV.v.81-82). At the end, she commits suicide by drowning because she did not believe the suffering was worth being alive. Her grief was too strong and this is because she was attached to him by love. To lose someone she truly loved broke her

2mention again that Ophelia is mourning her father's death. She sings about it, talks about it and even dies for it. She didn't care about anything else except her feelings she had towards this situation. She ended it all by committing suicide. Like the other girls in the play, when Ophelia was asked to do something she obeyed without question. She loved Hamlet a lot but couldn't bear the loss of her father , and in my opinion that makes her strong, she would give her own life just so she wouldn't have to live without her loved one.Similarities. The Queen and Ophelia wish for Hamlet to be happy and for him to go back to being himself again. Everyone around him feels as though he’s

What makes Ophelia Hamlet's foil is also part of what makes her more tragic than him. Hamlet felt grief over his father's death, however his madness was only pretend. Ophelia actually went insane after her father was killed. Ophelia's position in society was also the opposite of Hamlet's. Hamlet is free to do as he chooses, all the time. However, Ophelia is usually under close surveillance by her father at all times and has no choices. Because of this Ophelia's character is more unfortunate than that of Hamlet.

Hamlet was really mad because his mother married his uncle just a couple of days after his father died. The pain of Ophelia was too big, and the only solution that she found to relieve his pain was commit suicide. One other reason why Ophelia can considered a foil to Hamlet is because even though Hamlet is a prince, Ophelia is just close to him due to the social class, and because she is Polonious’ daughter. In that period, it was not well seen that a royal person had a relationship with a person of the lower class. The importance of Ophelia in this story is essential to have an impossible love for

Another similarity between Hamlet and Ophelia is that the deaths of their fathers played a significant role in their descents into madness, but it manifested itself in different ways. In the case of Hamlet, he discovers that his father was murdered by his uncle, causing him to become obsessed with destroying his uncle. Hamlet has shown that there is some method to his madness, because he becomes focused on avenging his father’s death. After the wedding

In The Tragedy of Hamlet, Shakespeare developed the story of prince Hamlet, and the murder of his father by the king's brother, Claudius. Hamlet reacted to this event with an internal battle that harmed everyone around him. Ophelia was the character most greatly impacted by Hamlet's feigned and real madness - she first lost her father, her sanity, and then her life. Ophelia, obedient, weak-willed, and no feminist role model, deserves the most pity of any character in the play.

In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, a kind of madness ultimately infects everyone, leading to an ending in which almost every major character is dead. Two of these maddened characters are Hamlet and Ophelia, who also share a love for each other. But though their irrational behavior is often similar and their fates alike, one is truly mad while the other is not.

In William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Ophelia, Polonius’s innocent child, overwhelmed with grief drowns herself in a brook. Many instances led to her unfortunate death. The first situation was Polonius’s ploy to see if Hamlet was mad because he loved Ophelia or from other causes. Hamlet, continuing to portray himself as a madman, ruthlessly scolds Ophelia. She is confused as to why he’s fanatically yelling at her since they loved each other. As the story nears its conclusion, Hamlet is bitterly criticizing Gertrude, his mother. In the heat of their discussion, Hamlet unsheathes his rapier and fatally wounds Polonius mistaking him as King Claudius. When Ophelia discovers the fate of her father, she is depressed. In conjunction, with Hamlet’s

Ophelia is misguided by her father, Polonius, when he tells her to spy on her lover, Hamlet, and report back to him and King Claudius. She is torn between her father and Hamlet, Once Hamlet found out about what she is doing he began to state his true feelings

However, due to the conniving actions of his mother, Hamlet rejects Ophelia and his love for her and pushes her away, ultimately causing her death. While Hamlet’s love for Ophelia often takes backseat to his revenge plans, it is evident throughout the play that he truly does love her. His

He writes to her numerous times with obvious affection, however Ophelia knows she cannot love, let alone marry the prince. These letters of emotions, combined with other feelings like desperation and agony, what they have as a relationship doesn't last very long. Both Hamlet and Ophelia have feelings for each other, but due to other conflicts occurring at the same time it becomes very difficult for the feelings to be exchanged effectively. These other conflicts involve Ophelia's father and brother convincing her that Hamlet will be the death of her. Along with all the other conflicts going on, Ophelia develops her own internal conflicts which cause her to fall into a pit of despair and madness.

Besides, Hamlet shows a truly upset when his father death but some behaviors towards his mother and with Ophelia can illustrate

The plot of the play Hamlet, Ophelia is indeed the most agonized character in that her love toward Hamlet is merely hopeless despite both characters’ emotions and efforts. Ophelia’s unconditional love toward Hamlet is a driving force of the plot and also one of the major themes of Hamlet. From the beginning, Ophelia’s love is interrupted by both her father and brother, since the fact that Hamlet is a monarch and Ophelia is simply a Polonius’s daughter. Therefore, such family’s objection to Ophelia and Hamlet’s relationship, Ophelia is forced to deny Hamlet’s love.

The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, is a heartbreaking tragedy with the observable decline of characters laying out right before the reader's eyes. The most clear and distinct instance of a character decline is Hamlet's lover, Ophelia. Hamlet, on a quest to avenge his father's death by fooling Claudius, the current king and the brother of Uncle of Hamlet, comes up with the idea to make Claudius think he is crazy and incapable of killing Claudius. Ophelia falls into the plan and becomes an unknowing participant of Hamlet's plot. Ophelia in this story is broken-up with, ridiculed, lead on and even insulted all by the man she loved, Hamlet, the son of dead King Hamlet.

Often times, a tragedy can bring two people together, especially lovers, yet, sometimes, it can drive them apart. Both of them can become mad, one can become mad and not the other, or they can become mad in two totally different ways. When tragedy strikes in Hamlet, Ophelia and Hamlet deal with it very differently. Despite the obvious tragedies that group them together, Ophelia and Hamlet are nothing alike at all, characteristically. In fact, Ophelia is the female version of the man Hamlet should become because she is active and determined, transgressing her pre-determined role as a naïve woman.