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A 4 page paper analyzing the strange conversation between Hamlet and Ophelia right after his famous soliloquy. It shows how he is no longer seeing Ophelia as the girl he courted but as a representative of the female sex -- of which his treacherous mother is also a part. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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be anything less than conventionally romantic. But at no point during the play do we ever see any evidence of conventionally romantic behavior. And nowhere is his behavior stranger than
in the odd conversation immediately following his famous "To Be or Not To Be" soliloquy. It would be edifying to break this down and figure out what exactly is going
on there. In Act III, Hamlets family has concluded that he is mad, and has set up a meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia, on which they intend to spy. Ophelia
is therefore planted on the stage, reading a book, while Hamlet enters delivering his famous soliloquy. For some forty lines, Ophelia is completely visible, but Hamlet simply does not notice
her. When he does, he greets her with the words: "Nymph, in thy orisons/ be all my sins rememberd" (III, i, 88-89). "Orisons" means "prayers," and even though he
doubtless assumes she is reading a prayer book, it is an odd remark. Is Hamlet asking Ophelia to pray for his sins because she is more innocent, and therefore closer
to God than he? Or is he saying that Ophelia is somehow the repository for, or possibly the symbol of, his sins -- that seeing her reminds him of them?
He does not say, and this is another of the hundreds of loose ends in Hamlet that Shakespeare does not explain. At any rate, Ophelia launches into the attempts to
atone for her rude behavior of the previous week: "My lord, I have remembrances of yours, that I have longed long to re-deliver; I pray you, now receive them." Hamlet
astonishingly replies that he has never given her anything at all. Ophelia, taking this literally, replies that of course he has; over the course of their relationship hes given
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