The tragedy of Hamlet was an extremely fascinating play with a lot of people exceptionally intriguing characters that did an incredible numerous chivalrous and baffling things regardless of the complexity and difficulty to comprehend the genuine identity William Shakespeare expected for each. ... This paper will analyze what sort of individual Shakespeare depicts her as, why she is so effectively influenced, the variables creating her madness and the criticalness each of them play. ... Ophelia's excellence is the reason Hamlet first felt affection for her, the reason her father, Poloni...

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I decided, along with Carol, to perform Act III, Scene I, from Hamlet, when Ophelia obeys her father and tests Hamlet's love for her by returning his remembrances. ... I have learned in former acting courses that, in Shakespeare's time, nunnery is often used as a play on the word actually meaning a brothel, or whore-house. ... In Shakespeare's writings, a knave can mean a servant that cares for the horses as well, which is an insult to a noble man. ... Since I believe that Hamlet knows that he is there, I interpreted the latter. ... Hamlet comes back with more insults for he...

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The Portrayal of Women in Shakespeare's "Hamlet- and Moliere's "Tartuffe- The portrayal of women has been a particularly daunting challenge for writers of English literature for several reasons. ... Among writer's from the era, both Shakespeare and Moliere were uniquely original and explicit in their portrayal of women. Shakespeare's "Hamlet- is one of the most startling pieces of English literature in its rather dubious portrayal of the feminine sex, and Moliere's "Tartuffe- is still a model example of complexity and subtlety in the portray of the female charact...

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Shakespeare's Hamlet and Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott both highlight many of the physical and psychological barriers that women have been resigned to for hundreds of years. ... She is oppressed by every male she encounters in the play, this is particularly evident when Hamlet verbally attacks her for seemingly no reason: "Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them" (Shakespeare, 3.1.138). ... Let in the maid that out a maid Never departed more" (Shakespeare, 4.5.47-54). In an expression of both madness and...

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The Women of Shakespeare Women in Shakespeare's plays were not of importance, compared to the male characters. ... In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet Capulet to me seems to be the most tragic of all Shakespeare's women characters. ... Thirdly, there is Hamlet. ... Later, we meet Ophelia and she is frightened by Hamlet's actions. ... People should not die for love, but in Shakespeare's plays, it seems so. ...

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