It shows Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. ... Millais chose to create a powerful and haunting image, unusual for the time, he chose the moment when Ophelia, driven mad by the murder of her father by Hamlet, drowns herself. ...
In Act II, Scene II of Hamlet, while delivering a report to the king and queen, Polonius delivers the following: "This business is well ended. ... (Bloom 209) However, Trodd notes that "Long before this, Hemingway's limited vocabulary, few adjectives, and concrete descriptions of specific objects all countered with minimalism the problem of "used up words." ...
The scale of the problem is rather simply expressed by the following government statistics referring to the gap between the most deprived areas and the rest of England: In the 10 per cent most deprived wards in 1998 44 per cent of people relied on means tested benefits, compared with a national average of 22 per cent; In the 10 per cent most deprived wards in 1998 over 60 per cent of children lived in households that relied on means tested benefits; In 1998-99, the employment rate in Tower Hamlets was 55 per cent, compared with 74 per cent nationally; The domestic burglary rate in North Manch...
