Manipulation Of The Character Ophelia In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Firstly, knowing the court was filled with corruption and deceit, Hamlet did his best to protect Ophelia from the dangers of the court. From the very beginning, he continually voices his distrust in various court members. One one such occasion , he tells Ophelia in a supposedly private conversation, “We are all arrant knaves believe none of us,” (3.1.139-140).

Ophelia’s character went through quite a large transformation. In the play her father tells her that she is to stay away from Hamlet and she readily agrees. In the movie Ophelia doesn’t disagree with her father but she also doesn’t agree just to please him. This shows that Ophelia isn’t easily persuaded, even by her own father. Despite her father’s warning about Hamlet, Ophelia met with him in secret at her apartment until her father found out.

This could be due to the fact that after Hamlet delivered his letter Ophelia immediately gave it to her father, Polonius, whom Hamlet does not trust. Yet, it was the action of Polonius receiving the letter which led Hamlet to conclude that in order to protect the love of his life, Ophelia, he would need to conceal his love for

By doing this Laertes refers to her more as an object, than a person. Laertes goes on to say, “do not sleep/But let me hear from you”, (Shakespeare, 1.3.3-4) He shows authority over Ophelia by telling her to stop from what she is doing, to tell him about Hamlet. After she has done so, Laertes warns her about Hamlet, “For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour/Hold it a fashion, and a toy in

Kenneth Brannagh has said that his interpretation of “Hamlet” suggests that Hamlet is aware of either Polonius and Claudius and Hamlet’s continual repetition of “Get thee to a nunnery” emphasizes his beliefs in all women being morally corrupt. Possibly, Hamlet betrays Ophelia because he ultimately loves her. He is aware of men being “arrant knaves” and as such may be

Hamlet views Ophelia as a naive and ignorant girl who is nothing but Polonius and Claudius's puppet. This was revealed when Hamlet said "God has given you one face and you make yourself another. . You jig and amble, and you lisp, you nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance." (III, i, 143-146) In this quote Hamlet knows that Ophelia is spying on him for Polonius and Claudius.

In the tragedy, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, two main characters have been separated from beloved family members physically and emotionally. In the play, the loss of Hamlet's father causes him to decline mentally . Not only did he lose his father physically, he also lost his mother emotionally. Ophelia’s loss of her father causes her to break down . Within Hamlet the theme of revenge is prominent and some of these deaths are the reason for several characters insanity.

Ophelia is by far one of the most tragic characters in Shakespeare ’s play The Tragedy of Hamlet. She loses everything she holds precious, such as her father and Hamlet’s affections, and is manipulated by the men who claim to love her. Throughout the play, Ophelia is nothing but a pawn in the men’s schemes. The people around her mask their true intentions, leading her to a life of deceit.

This implies that Ophelia is so passionately in love with Hamlet that she willing gave her

The dark light Hamlet shines on Gertrude is reflected onto Ophelia. This brings enough darkness into her life to eventually diminish what little light was left inside of her. By analyzing Hamlet’s opinions about Gertrude’s hasty marriage, betrayal of the late King Hamlet, and sexual relationship with Claudius it becomes evident that these opinions develop into Hamlet’s limited understanding of women and the ultimate cause of Ophelia’s

Hamlet does not value Ophelia 's feelings he belittles her. In Hamlets defense this is the way he was brought up to treat women, during that time this was a common way to treat a women. Even though in today 's society it is not at all ok to treat women with such disrespect. He also likes for everything to go as planned and this may result in why he can not have a stable relationship with a woman. This also causes him to have many stumbling blocks in his life that causes some emotional pain

For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither, / That he, as ‘twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia” (Shakespeare 136). Claudius is aware of the fact that Hamlet has been sending Ophelia love letters, and that Ophelia only told Polonius about the letters “in obedience” (Shakespeare 94). Claudius willingly participates in a situation where two young people, who are struggling with their emotions for each other, will purposefully run into one another. Claudius does not care for how this interaction will affect Ophelia’s naive and sensitive emotions. He only uses her so that he can gain the information he so badly craves and needs from Hamlet.

In the play written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Ophelia is one of the most relevant characters. Ophelia is projected as an innocent and dependent young woman. She was a noblewoman, was not from the royalty but of high social class, born in Denmark to Polonius, chief counselor of the king. Ophelia also had a brother named Laertes. Ophelia lived in a men world where only males were educated and women were powerless and had no rights.

When Laertes is talking to her to have fear about her losing her virginity, she says this to him, “Whiles, a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede” (I.iii.49-52). Then when it comes to her father giving her the same lecture and tells her not to accept anything from Hamlet, her simply reply, “I shall obey, my lord” (I.iii.136). Since Ophelia is very obedient, she is easily manipulated and used by the guys in her life. Hamlet uses her to give the image that he is filled with madness still, which he knows that she would go tell her father about

She is governed by he father and brother. Her father Dolonius forbids her to be with Hamlet whom she loves. Throughout the play Hamlet toys with her emotions. She is constantly being pulled in different directions at the same time. It is not until the death of her father that you see the deterioration of her sanity.