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(5 pp) The two-part question for our discussion
is first, Hamlet's relationship with Ophelia, and
then second who is responsible for Ophelia's death.
Then we will make some possible conclusions about
the relationship of truth and death in this
tragedy by Shakespeare.
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by Shakespeare. Relationship with Hamlet The obvious thought in our twenty-first century minds is that Ophelia and Hamlet must be lovers; if they were lovers, and she is rejected by
Hamlet, after the murder of her father, she "just looses it" and falls into madness, because she is a "frail woman." Certainly there are those critics who believe
that this is a truth. We will not take issue with that opinion because the marvelous thing about art, visual or written that has survived over time, is usually
that it is open to numerous interpretations. However, if we do take the details of the play into consideration, plus what might be considered the "normalcy" of the
Elizabethan times, we come up with another possibility. Ophelia was raised by her father and her brother. Her father, Polonius treats her as a pet, a pretty
thing to have around, but still "a green girl," (1.3.101), to be taught and counseled no matter what her age. Her brother, Laertes, continually advises her to be
wary of men (we can wonder if he does not want her to be taken in by men like himself, who his father accuses of wanton behavior): "Fear it,
Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister" (1.3.33). (Is "it" the "truth" of men, or the "truth that is not your own?") We need to know the background of Ophelia,
before we can get a clear picture of what the relationship might be with Hamlet. Here we have a young woman who has been told by Dad, that she
will not be good at decisions concerning her own welfare; and bro who says, whatever you do - dont trust what men tell you. Today we would ask what
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