Ophelia key scenes and quotes

Question 1

Polonius telling her to stop seeing Hamlet

Answer 1

Act 1, Scene 3
39-41

Question 2

Nunnery scene

Answer 2

129-133

Question 3

Soliloquy

Answer 3

133

Question 4

beauty as corrupting

Answer 4

• ‘power of beauty will’ ‘transform honesty from what it is to a bawd’
  = beauty corrupts virtue= echo of of C’s motif of physical visage that hides corruption= associates women w corruption
  = projects disillusionment of adulthood and issues w G’s sexual affairs onto O
  = can’t accept realistic imperfections of his mum and other women= follows idealist and pure view of women