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Examine the character Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Examine the character Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius, the right hand man of the King. Although she is only in five scenes Ophelia plays an interesting role in this play as the seemingly passive, melancholy, innocent 'little girl' whose story ends in tragedy. From the beginning Ophelia is an obedient character who has real trouble thinking for herself. This could be seen as one of the reasons for her eventual downfall, due to her inability to analyse a strange, complicated pattern of events. She is always accepting other people's views or advice, acting upon them, with no thought or interpretation of what the results could be. This is one of the reasons why her suicide is not thought of by her or the reader in her first scenes, because for her to commit such an act would take thought and initiative, two concepts completely foreign to...
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