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How do you suppose Ophelia feels after listening to her brother and her father talk about her love life?
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Was Ophelia hamlets girlfriend or wife?
Hamlet was her boyfriend. Polonius was her father. Laertes was her brother. Claudius was her father's employer and her boyfriend's father. Gertrude seems to have been a bit of a surrogate mother to Ophelia.
What characters in Hamlet offer advice to Ophelia about her relationship with Hamlet?
Her father Polonius. Her brother Laertes.
In hamlet What is ophelias major weakness?
Ophelia has been trained by her heavy-handed father to do what he tells her (and failing that, what her brother tells her). With her father dead and her brother in France, she has no anchor in her world.
Who is Ophelia's father?
Polonius.
What news did Gertrude give to Laertes?
Ophelia tells her father polonius that her boyfriend Hamlet has gone insane.
Who is polonius in Hamlet?
Polonius is the chief counselor to the king, and also the father of Ophelia and Laertes.
In Act 1 Scene 3 of Hamlet what is the mood?
There is a tender family feeling at Laertes's departure with dark undercurrents, particularly in the way Ophelia is treated by her father and brother.
Does ophelia want to get revenged from Hamlet for killing her father?
No, not at all. Hamlet's part in her father's death came as a great sorrow to her. She was sad and confused but not angry. Her brother Laertes got her share of the family vengeful spirit.
How does Ophelia react to her father's death in Shakespeare's Hamlet?
Ophelia appears to obey whenever her brother or father tell her anything. She's annoyed at Laertes's urge toward chastity, since she suspects him of being a hypocrite, but she agrees anyway. She's very meek, up until she goes mad.
Why does ophelia choose her father over her lover?
In Hamlet, Ophelia did not have a choice. Hamlet put on such a display of madness that Ophelia and everyone else believed him. If Ophelia revealed that the King and Polonius were behind the curtains, she would have lost favor with her father and become the shame of the family. In the male centric world, women like Ophelia could only accept the outrageous ideals set by men. In her situation, she choose her father because that was her only choice.
Who forbade Ophelia from continuing to see prince Hamlet?
Ophelia's father, Polonius, forbade her from continuing to see prince Hamlet.
What Does Ophelia Agree To Do?
In Act 1 Scene 3 of Hamlet, Ophelia agrees to reject Hamlet's amorous advances as her father instructed her to do.
