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The Devolution of Ophelia
Jamie, Josie, Jane, Stephanie, Maurice
Act I
• Ophelia– Assertive– Clever– Kind
• “I shall the effect of this good lesson keepAs watchman to my heat, but, good my brother,Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,Himself the primrose path of dalliance treadsAnd recks not his own rede.”
– Ophelia contests her brother’s suggestions telling him to mark his own words
Act II
• Ophelia first witnesses Hamlet’s madness– Deeply shaken, tells her father– “O my lord, my lord I have been so affrighted!”
• Question of loyalty to her love, Hamlet, or her father, Polonius– Begins to tear her personality
• Does she still love Hamlet? Is she too frightened of him now?
Act III: The Breakup
• Ophelia reluctantly ends her relationship with Hamlet– Plan orchestrated by her father and Claudius– Hamlet realizes it is upset
• Ophelia is weakened by the encounter– Hamlet confesses he “loved [her] not”– Confused by Hamlet’s questioning of her; upset by
his change in character
Act IV• Polonius is murdered by Hamlet• Ophelia loses her mind when she finds out
– Sings songs to the Queen– Constantly absent-minded– Distraught over loss of father– Guilty over love for Hamlet
• “Young men will do’t if they come to’t,By Cock, they are to blame.Quoth she, ‘Before you tumbled me,You promised me to wed.’He answers:‘So would I ‘a’ done, by yonder sun,And thou hadst not come to my bed.’”
• Cannot sanely converse with her brother, Laertes• Ophelia commits suicide by drowning in response to the
madness caused by Hamlet’s murdering of her father
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Completely looney
Act IV
Act III
Act II
Act I
Ophelia: Time vs. Crazy Chart