Who Is Ophelia Escapize In Pan's Labyrinth

The story of Hamlet is a morbid tale of tragedy, commitment, and manipulation; this is especially evident within the character of Ophelia. Throughout the play, Ophelia is torn between obeying and following the different commitments that she has to men in her life. She is constantly torn between the choice of obeying the decisions and wishes of her family or that of Hamlet. She is a constant subject of manipulation and brain washing from both her father and brother. Ophelia is not only subject to the torture of others using her for their intentions but she is also susceptible to abuse from Hamlet. Both her father and her brother believe that Hamlet is using her to achieve his own personal goals.

Allowing herself to continually feel her grief without support and guidance causes Ophelia to lose her mind. King Claudius says of her, “O, this is the poison of deep grief: it springs/ All from her father’s death…; Poor Ophelia/ Divided from herself and her fair judgement,/ Without the which we are pictures”(4.5.74-75,83-83) Without her father and his ability to reason and tell her what to do, Ophelia loses the little control she has over herself. Previously, she could rely on Polonius to speak for her, but her only support is gone, and her coping strategy is ineffective and detrimental. By being separated from “herself and her fair judgement”, Ophelia is no longer herself, and the girl who she used to be has been destroyed.

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

As a result of every other aspect in Ophelia’s life being out of her control, she

Ophelia can be portrayed as having little power, which is evident in her obedience to her father in 1.3. However, Ophelia's final act is of defiance in her use of flowers to mark the bad qualities of other characters. The symbolism of the flowers is a very feminine way to express that the corruption of Denmark is disguised, much like how the pretty flowers represent something deeper. Ophelia dies a tragic death, but it is unclear whether or not it was suicide, but Shakespeare's imagery depicts her death in a frail beauty, much like the flowers earlier in the act represent qualities such as innocence are

Ophelia begins the play as a typical adolescent girl growing up in an environment that would predispose her to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Her father’s murder and the events around it do not drive her insane, but shock an easily shaken system. Notes the king: “First her father slain: Next your son gone; and he most violent author Of his own just remove…. Poor Ophelia Divided from herself and her fair judgment, Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts” (Shakespeare).

Unlike most fairy tales that are stripped of their darkest and most frightening elements, Pan’s Labyrinth is unafraid to show violence of all sorts- physical, emotional, domestic, and otherwise. This violence is, interestingly enough, echoed in the fairytale world as well. Ophelia turned to the faun, and was ready and willing to believe his story about the underworld to escape all the violence in her life. Instead, this violence continued in the fantasy world, albeit in a different manner. In this way, violence provided parallels between the worlds, as well as questions about reality and fantasy. Who was really the monster? The Captain or the Pale Man? Who was actually looking out for and guiding Ophelia? Her mother or the fawn? These reflections across the world's, particularly those driven by violence, pushed the plot for the majority of the

Pan’s Labyrinth and how Escapism can Ruin you. In Pan’s Labyrinth, the character of Ophelia represents how escapism’s disconnect from reality might cause damage to relationships and severe injury or death. Towards the beginning of the story, Ophelia’s discovery of the fawn and the revelation of her being, “The daughter of the king of the underworld,” shows how she uses escapism as a means of creating a fictitious world that helps her avoid the new, horrible life that she endures under her stepfather. However, the adventures that this fantasy sends her on creates a strain in her relationships with her mother and stepfather, which becomes evident when her mother reprimands her saying, “You have disappointed me, and your father too.”

The faun visits Ophelia again and gives her a final chance. By bringing her baby brother to the center of the labyrinth she can redeem her mistake. She escapes from her room using the chalk from the second task to make a door and drugs Vidal with the sedative that Dr. Ferreiro had been giving to her mother. She then takes the baby and runs to the labyrinth with Vidal in pursuit, though stumbling and unsteady from the

	Ophelia reaches a point where she can not think for herself and relies on her father to think for her. She subdues her feelings for a man she loves for another man whom she allows to

Ophelia goes into a state of insanity due to the murder of her father. She needed someone to lean on, especially the man she loved. With no comfort and no understanding of the tragedy, Ophelia took her own

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 of her. She has loved, or been prepared to love, the wrong man; her father has brought disaster on himself, and she has no mother: she is terribly lonely. (73-74)

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

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.

On this childlike nature and on Ophelia's inexperience everything depends. Her father and brother are jealously anxious for her because of her ignorance and innocence; and we resent