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Post by timmy on Mar 23, 2016 11:13:25 GMT
Reading the line of Ophelia before her death, I was confused by how she was feeling at the time. It could have been anger, panic, hopelessness, love, yearning, or anything, as I can imagine her being in that state at the time. I mean, it is up to us for interpretation, but which of the feelings would you guys have felt if you guys were in Ophelia's shoes? Personally, I think it would be yearning. I think I would yearn for the days when everything was all right, and would also have felt sorrowful.
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Post by mohahaha on Mar 23, 2016 12:24:09 GMT
I would feel angry if I was in Ophelia's place just because of how stressful it has become of Polonius's Death, Laertes absents, and Hamlet's execution in England. Since really Ophelia really always relied on someone to be with, especially her father. After his death, everything in the world seems to be wrong that it's full of corruption, and Ophelia might know her self as innocent and pure, and this world doesn't belong to her.
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Post by ETypeRegymon on Mar 23, 2016 12:35:32 GMT
Definitely hopelessness, with a dash of good old sorrow. My own father just died, and he was the one who told me how to live every waking moment of my own life. And it isn't like Louise from the Story of An Hour where she was aware how bad being oppressed was, I'd be lost and scared. How am I supposed to live now? I don't think the conditions would be right for me to gain independence either, since in addition to Polonius' death, Hamlet just finished insulting and rejecting me too. Too much stressful events happening in a short period of time = contemplating suicide.
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Post by graceyichen on Mar 23, 2016 14:06:10 GMT
If I were Ophelia then, I would feel numb to reality. Past the point of hopelessness, descending into madness, a bit denying the fact that her father died, living in her imaginations where she can protect herself. I would be so shocked that I cannot process my father's death, and probably just go crazy.
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Post by mayurika98 on Mar 23, 2016 14:28:12 GMT
Ophelia's confusion and loss of purpose in life, makes her character hard to understand. Right before her death I imagine Ophelia feeling anxious to take the next step. Ophelia killed herself by drowning. Water represents purity and cleanliness. Therefore I think she drowned herself as a symbolism of washing away the worries and grievances of her life.
Ophelia, unlike the woman from the "Story of an Hour" was filled with sorrow and uncertainty when she was abandoned by the men in her life. I feel like she put under so much pressure and confusion which is what drove her to madness. In the end she just wanted to wash away all of her problems and be free.
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Post by susansun18 on Mar 24, 2016 2:04:55 GMT
I feel like Ophelia was so hopeless and her hopelessness turned into madness. When you're totally mad, you do things that is not normal.If I were her, I think I would be happy to die? Her situation was extreme, there was nobody there to support her anymore, his father puncooled away, her "true love" was a total trash, treated like a trash, there was nobody to set up decisions for her anymore, she didn't know what should she do.
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Post by dilan on May 8, 2016 14:12:47 GMT
I think Ophelia feel everything lose before her suicide herself and I'm pretty sure Ophelia feel that she is really alone because she had lose people who around her and there nobody to show her way, what she needs to do so I think she was keep thinking like that and suicide herself.
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