Ophelia Death

Ophelia's death is really unknown. We're given information through Gertrude that she killed herself in her madness. To be honest, I feel like the blame should be on Hamlet. Hamlet's rejection started it and his madness led to the death of Polonius. Ophelia really had nothing to do with these events but was just caught up in the action. To me, she felt more of a victim and had no other choice but to end it all.

As Jonah said, Ophelia's death is unknown. The author didn't explain much about her death, except for just popping up her sudden death while Laertes and Claudius was planning Hamlet's death. I feel like this part is kind of misogynist, because as we talked in the cluncool, we said that Ophelia got her freedom from both Polonius and Laertes and the next thing that she did was suicide, which can convince the author to think that women are sinners. Since Hamlet was considering to suicide but due to the religion he couldn't but unfortunately Ophelia did. So this might a way of showing the comparison of Men and Women.

Ophelia seems a character that really relies on others for advice, when her father died. She just basically lost it and let all her feelings out to at least get people's senses, which I believe Hamlet should have been there for her since both characters have lost their fathers and at least feel sympathetic. Ophelia probably realized by the end that Hamlet didn't really care, and that he is insane, even though she loved him. Making her to lost of what to do, and committing suicide is a one way ticket from madness.

As I said in cluncool, I don't think Ophelia had any other choices. Ophelia was dependant on men her entire life, her father, brother, and Hamlet. And with her father's death and Hamlet's rejection, everything she depended on was gone. She had to immediately learn to think by herself, which she never had to do because she only idd what others told her to do. So in the process of losing everything she depended on, she became insane and with this insanity she got, she could use it as an excuse to speak up her for her mind for the first time. In her monologue, Ophelia criticises the authority and corrupted society but no one takes her seriously because as a young woman, she is only objectified. Even after all the important criticisms she said (for example, criticising Claudius and Gertrude for adultery), only response she really gets is "O, pretty Ophelia." She has learned to think for herself in tragedy and she spoke for herself, but no one listened and no one will. I think that's why she had no choice but to kill herself, she had no reason to live.

I think that everyone should take part of the blame for her death. including herself. Polonius and Claudius would be blamed because they kept using to test whether Hamlet was sane or not, and Polonius and Laertes kept giving her orders on how she should act because she was a woman and they were men and therefore needed to help her, a weakling, out. Even though their intentions were not bad, it sort of came out that way. Also, Hamlet is to blame because he used her as bait to make the others think he was mad, as he acted all crazy towards her and yelled at her and stuff. She was especially heartbroken after that, so played a role in her madness and eventually her death.