Hamlet Essay On Ophelia's Mind
In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Ophelia is a beautiful and simple-mind girl, easily influenced by other’s opinions and desires. Always doing what she is told, even if it is not what her heart wishes. She is easily influenced by her father, Polonius and brother, Laertes the most. Later on the love letters Ophelia receives from Hamlet cause her mind to become confused, and is forced to choose between obeying what her father wants or following her heart. Ophelia is not able to understand what is really happening because of all the pressure they put on her to be someone else. The weakness of her mind and will that force her to obey her father causes her to go insane and die. During the first act, Polonious and Laertes make Ophelia
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But Ophelia has no mind of her own to understand how much she is making Hamlet suffer because all she can see in Hamlet’s behavior is madness. “That unmatched form and feature of blown youth blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me t’ have seen what I have seen, see what I see!” (III.i.162-164). In act four Ophelia finds out that her father has died. Her weak mind cannot sustain this burden causing her insanity. Not only did her father’s death cause her to go crazy but the hate for him when he tried to protect her from everything by controlling her actions and the love for Hamlet, which she was denied. In trying to cope with it all she looses her mind and makes her act out in front of the King and Queen, singing a children’s song like she were an innocent child who cannot think for herself and know wrong from right. Ophelia’s insanity causes her to commit suicide by drowning herself. In the end she never understood why Hamlet acted the way he did but found a way to relate to him in which her father too is killed and the betrayal of a loved one but her weak mind could not stop her from
But Ophelia has no mind of her own to understand how much she is making Hamlet suffer because all she can see in Hamlet’s behavior is madness. “That unmatched form and feature of blown youth blasted with ecstasy. O, woe is me t’ have seen what I have seen, see what I see!” (III.i.162-164). In act four Ophelia finds out that her father has died. Her weak mind cannot sustain this burden causing her insanity. Not only did her father’s death cause her to go crazy but the hate for him when he tried to protect her from everything by controlling her actions and the love for Hamlet, which she was denied. In trying to cope with it all she looses her mind and makes her act out in front of the King and Queen, singing a children’s song like she were an innocent child who cannot think for herself and know wrong from right. Ophelia’s insanity causes her to commit suicide by drowning herself. In the end she never understood why Hamlet acted the way he did but found a way to relate to him in which her father too is killed and the betrayal of a loved one but her weak mind could not stop her from