Throughout Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Love plays an important role. Love causes certain things to happen‚ sometimes not always good things. Love causes Ophelia and Hamlet to go crazy‚ but also brought back good memories. Hamlet went crazy and went on a rampage about how love made him mad. Ophelia brought up the fact that Hamlet promised her love. Ophelia went crazy and had started to sing songs about Hamlet. When Hamlet was in the graveyard‚ Yorick reminded Hamlet of his childhood. He had always looked
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that had lived wicked lives and were turned into a women as punishment. Ophelia is commonly thought to be created to show Hamlet’s abhorrence of women in general just like the Greeks. Ophelia is more than just a minor character in Hamlet‚ rather‚ William Shakespeare uses Ophelia to show the more human sides of Gertrude‚ Laertes‚ and Hamlet‚ characters who otherwise are playing personal roles. Gertrude‚ Laertes‚ and Hamlet are painted as heartless and inherently selfish people for most of the play
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Ophelia‚ the sweet and naieve girl in “Hamlet”‚ is clueless about the world around her and she thinks Hamlet loves her‚ when in reality he doesn’t and he rejects Ophelia. Ophelia innocently loved Hamlet even though Hamlet was slightly crazy‚ she gave her all to hamlet and he took her for granted even after her own brother Laertes told her to watch out for the king because he’s of noble birth and she’s nothing to him. Polonius her dad is over protective and doesn’t want Ophelia to talk to hamlet
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Hamlet Essay: Ophelia There are many people that contribute to my life and are shaping me into the person I am today. When somebody new enters my life they contribute a different aspect. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ Ophelia contributes aspects that no other character does. Ophelia is portrayed as a loyal daughter caught between her love for her father and her love for Hamlet. Ophelia is clearly devoted and loyal to her father and her brother. Ophelia never goes against what her father asks
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In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare‚ the protagonist‚ Hamlet‚ is deprived of support from his mother‚ Gertrude‚ and his love interest‚ Ophelia. Gertrude and Ophelia display many similar characteristics and face similar challenges in the first act of the play. Both Gertrude and Ophelia are naive and at times oblivious to other people’s motivations and feelings‚ especially those of Hamlet. In addition‚ Gertrude and Ophelia’s families are averse to the people that they each love. Finally‚ both
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tragedy Hamlet‚ death and justice are reoccurring themes‚ but they are not as vital as love. Love affairs‚ broken hearts‚ and betrayal shuffle between each of the characters‚ causing hysteria within their lives. Shakespeare uses the characters to show how love‚ justice‚ and death play a part in each act‚ letting the reader debate the outcome and reasoning of each event. Hamlet’s love interest‚ Ophelia‚ has the greatest ties to love. She experiences love in many ways‚ including blind love and loss
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SPH 4U Worksheet 1) A spring with spring constant 450 N/m is compressed 15cm and is used to fire a 5g plastic ball straight up in the air. Find: a) the launch speed b) the maximum height to which the ball rises 2) A pendulum with a mass of 50g on it at a height of 30cm is allowed to swing. At the bottom of its swing it strikes a horizontal spring that compresses 5cm in stopping the pendulum. What is: a) the spring constant? b) the speed of the pendulum bob when the spring is only compressed
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We see that Hamlet treatment of Ophelia because of this may be thestraw-that-breaks-the-camel ’s-back with respect to the pressure he puts onOphelia. Ophelia will become increasingly despondent and mad in thewake of Hamlet ’s rejection of her. In this sense‚Ophelia is treated like an object by her family who strives to keep the manshe loves and that loves her away from her. Used bythe King‚ her father and brother‚ and abandoned by Hamlet; these externalpressures combine to cause Ophelia ’s bizarre
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’Macbeth’ was written around about 1603-1607 and no one really knows when the exact date ’Hamlet’ was written‚ but it was approximately in 1599-1601. The plays written were both tragedies written by William Shakespeare. ’Macbeth’ was about a man who was told a prophecy by three witches that he will be lord of Cawdor and he will become King. So he killed the former King of Scotland for himself and his wife Lady Macbeth to become king and queen‚ he was not alone in the murder his wife manipulated
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June 25‚ 2013 Ophelia: Crazy or Not? In the story “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare the character of Ophelia is quite a challenge to understand. Ophelia is Hamlets love interest‚ whom many thought was mad or psychologically disturbed from the beginning of the story. That may have been true‚ but it was not necessarily the whole truth. Ophelia could have been mad or just been madly in love. She also could have been putting on a cloak of madness to hide the fact that she was in on Hamlets plan to expose
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