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Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet Hamlet is a very complex play based upon the relationships within the walls of Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Hamlet is the main character and is the base for all the emotions and feelings in the play. Gertrude (Hamlets Mother), Claudius (Hamlets Uncle and his Mother's new husband and the new King) play major roles in the play. Ophelia is outside the family connections of these three characters but still has a major impact on the audience of the play. Many people have become fascinated by Ophelia. William Hazlitt wrote: "Ophelia is a character almost too exquisitely touching to be dwelt upon. Oh rose of May, oh flower too soon faded!" A Victorian Actress wrote: "When we see Ophelia first this 'Rose of May' is just budding; and, indeed, it is as a bud, never as a full flower, that she lived her brief life" Many people...

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