Ophelia Key Quotations And Critics Flashcards
‘Ophelia is deprived of thought, sexuality, and _____’ (______)
Language, Showalter.
‘A _____ in the youth of prime nature’
Who says this?
Violet. Laertes.
‘_____ treasure’
Chaste
‘I shall obey my ____’
How does this portray Ophelia.
Lord. Passive and inactive.
‘In Shakespeare’s society, the ideal female is cherished for her __, __ and ___’ (___)
Youth, beauty, purity. Rogers.
What are the connotations against Ophelia when Hamlet calls Polonius a ‘fishmonger’
Sexual innuendo that Ophelia is a prostitute. (Fishmonger meaning brothel holder)
‘Get thee to a nunnery’ what dual connotations does this quotation hold.
Protecting her Chasity to save her
reputation in the patriarchy
Or
Nunnery= female brother holder. Suggesting that she is impure and suggesting promiscuous behaviour from
her.
What does Hamlet mean when he’s says to Ophelia ‘you jig and amble and you lisp.’
She talks and moves in a deceitful and artificial way, putting on a performance of innocence.
‘We can imagine Hamlet’s___ without Ophelia, but Ophelia literally has no ___ without Hamlet.’ (______)
Story. (Edwards).
What significance is ‘pray you mark’ and link to a critic. What technique is used.
Here Shakespeare gives Ophelia power through the use of imperatives ‘mark’ (meaning listen) which Charley says ‘through madness, ophelia suddenly makes a forceful assertion of being’.
“Let in the maid that out a maid” connotations.
Refers to her relationship with Hamlet and suggests that she was once a maid and is no longer referring to her virginity and loss of impurity.
What is the significance of Ophelia giving out flowers, columbines.
And Elizabethan audience would recognise these as a symbol of deception. Ophelia is perhaps commenting on the ‘corruption of human nature’ (Mack) and through her madness is deliberately trying to make a comment.
