Ophelia Flashcards
Highlights her naivety/ shows her romantic ideals
“you speak like a green girl” (Polonius)
O’s honestly and faithfulness to her father
“I will obey my lord”
“the fair Ophelia”
The result of her trust in H’s love
“I was the more deceived”
Her recalling her relationship/love for Hamlet in sorrow at his madness
“Sucked the honey of his music vows”
Vocalises the transition of Hamlet’s character: then/now
“t’have seen what i have seen, see what i see”
Gives both Gertrude and herself rue – liken their loss of love (Hamlet’s madness/ Old Hamlet’s death)
“there’s fennel for you, and columbines. There’s rue for you and here’s some for me”
Effect when her father was killed - naive
“I would offer you violets but they withered all when my father died”
Her song is as Laertes says ‘a document in madness’
“For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy”
G’s wish in hindsight
“i hop’d thou shoulds’t have been Hamlet’s wife”
When Laertes and Hamlet are competing over Ophelia – he is trying to prove his love for her
“I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum”
Described by Laertes when offering his hypocritical advice
“chaste treasure”
In many ways Ophelia is the most guilt free – she can be seen as the only true victim who does not radiate her hurt onto others
In many ways Ophelia is the most guilt free – she can be seen as the only true victim who does not radiate her hurt onto others
Polonius as a ‘fishmonger’
‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’
Can’t think for herself
‘I do not know my lord what I should think’
Polonius thinking about himself over O’s feelings
‘You’ll tender me a fool.’
