Ophelia Speaks Book Report

On the contrary, I found it partially long winded on how she set up the book. She would start the book talking about her own personally experiences and her life going through addiction and she would use peer- reviews to back up her view of addiction or whatever point she was trying to get across. The parts about her experience I really enjoyed reading because from her early childhood experiences to her going to recovery and now I see

Thesis Statement: The origin of Ophelia’s madness is rendered through examination of her relationships with her father Polonius, her brother, Laertes, and her lover Hamlet.

I just started reading a new book and it is called Ophelia Speaks, by Sara Shandler. So far it is about young girls and teenagers sending essays they wrote into this company. The company compiles the best ones they like into this book. The essays are mostly about all the girls’ insecurities about themselves. Such as, their eating disorders, and their desire to be thin. It is unfortunate that they have to deal with being unhappy all the time because of the way they look.

The book, Reviving Ophelia, is about the hardships girls go through when they are growing up and trudging through puberty. As the author Mary Pipher states it, adolescent girls tend to lose their “true selves” in order to fit in and comply with the standards that society sets for women. Pipher, a practicing therapist, uses her own case studies to show how pressures put on girls forces them to react in often damaging ways. In most case studies she tells the audience how she helped these girls heal and regain control of their lives. It seems that her primary goal is to warn people of what certain effects can have on girls and what not to do. The one thing that Pipher tends to overlook is what parents can do right to raise healthy

     Mary Pipher, author of the book Reviving Ophelia, has made many observations concerning young adolescent girls in our society. She wrote this book in 1994, roughly eleven years ago. Although some of her observations made in the past are not still accurate in today’s world, there are many that are still present in 2005. The primary focus of Pipher’s comments is to explain how young girls are no longer being protected within our society.

King Arthur is a medieval, mythological figure who was the head of the kingdom Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table. The myth of King Arthur has completely altered since it was first dreamed up. Its unknown if there was a real King Arthur, but it is believed he was a Roman-affiliated military leader who beat the Saxons in the 5th and 6th centuries.

The character of Ophelia is an excellent element of drama used to develop interpretations of Shakespeare’s text. At the beginning of the play, she is happy and in love with Hamlet, who first notices her beauty and then falls in love with her. The development of Ophelia’s madness and the many factors that contributed to her suicide are significant parts of the plot. “Her madness was attributed to the extremity of her emotions, which in such a frail person led to melancholy and eventual breakdown” (Teker, par. 3). The character of Ophelia in Zieffirelli’s version is the personification of a young innocent girl. “Her innocence is mixed with intelligence, keen perception, and erotic awareness” (Teker, par. 13). This Ophelia is a victim

In this play, yes, many of Ophelia's words are shut down by other characters in the play. This happens many times throughout the play because yes, in this time frame women were seen as much lesser than men. This was because men did the providing while most of the time women stayed at home, were told what to do, cook, clean, watch the children, and they were even told who they had to marry without being able to give any personal input. This is seen not just in this particular play with Ophelia, but also in many other plays of this time frame. In contemporary culture i would not say that women's words are disregarded in such a way. This is because we have moved on from this time frame and it has been different for a very long time. Women actually

of a terrible waste of young life. As a result of the way in which

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   Poor Ophelia, she lost her lover, her father, her mind, and, posthumously, her brother. Ophelia is the only truly innocent victim in Hamlet. This essay will examine Ophelia's downward spiral from a chaste maiden to nervous wreck.

It is widely believed that “Living life without honor is a tragedy bigger than death itself” and this holds true for Hamlet’s Ophelia. Ophelia’s death symbolizes a life spent passively tolerating Hamlet’s manipulations and the restrictions imposed by those around her, while struggling to maintain the last shred of her dignity. Ophelia’s apathetic reaction to her drowning suggests that she never had control of her own life, as she was expected to comply with the expectations of others. Allowing the water to consume her without a fight alludes to Hamlet’s treatment of Ophelia as merely a device in his personal agenda. Her apparent suicide denotes a desire to take control of her life for once. Ophelia’s death is, arguably, an honorable one,

“I do not know, my lord, what I should think. POL: Marry, I will teach you. Think

Denmark is in a state of chaos shown by the opening death of the true

Finally, one can assume that we meet people every day who may act like The Parson or The Miller. They could be a thief or a saint or somewhere in between. In fact, some people could have these traits in themselves as well, without even knowing. My family has told me they can even see some of The Parson and The Millers character traits in me. Nevertheless, people should never judge a book by their cover. In conclusion, the characteristics and traits of The Parson are some to be admired while The Millers are some to be scorned.