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Question Character Relationship Event SettingOphelia’s downfall is due to Ophelia’s relationship with her family is Although Ophelia is regarded by much of The circumstances of Ophelia’ death
her own miscreant behaviour too passive and she does not speak up the contemporary audience as displaying would lead to speculation as to whether it
for herself miscreant behaviour, one could argue was deliberate or accidental; it being
When Laertes warns her to stay away that this was all the actions of Hamlet deliberate would establish this ultimate
from Hamlet who he calls an ‘unvalued A shocking exchange with Hamlet’s downfall as being due to her own
persons’ – Laertes is in control ‘doublet all unbraced… his stockings miscreant behaviour
throughout whole conversation fouled’ The setting of her drowning leads an
Ophelia simply answers in short Jameson argues that she felt the need to audience to assume it was of an accidental
sentences such as ‘No more but so?’ – inform Polonius as she is ‘too soft, too nature, ‘she fell in the weeping brook’ and
evident that Ophelia doesn’t try to good, too fair’ and she might have felt was caught up in the ‘weeds’ and ‘nettles’
defend herself but simply accept her innocence at risk due to Hamlet’s around her
everything Laertes tells her dishevelled appearance The natural imagery of the ‘brook’ and
Laertes offers her overprotective advice Hamlet physically stops her from leaving floral imagery of greenery around
genuinely, but his tone is condescending the encounter as ‘he falls to such a Ophelia’s death suggest accident as it
Hamana – ‘Ophelia suffers a series of perusal of [her] face that he would draw symbolises nature running its course
patriarchal oppressions’ – prominent in it’, with only ‘a little shaking’ of Ophelia’s Anna Jameson’s perception of Ophelia
her relationship with brother and father arm providing her with the opportunity agrees with the idea that neither her
who seem to dictate her life, under the to leave death nor social downfall was any fault of
guise they are protecting her, but they Hamlet clearly believes he holds power her own, instead her criticism of Ophelia is
just leave her in a state of ignorance over Ophelia to act in an inconsiderate that she is simply ‘too soft, too good, too
Polonius calls her a ‘green girl’ – and reckless manner, proving that ‘his fair’
infantilising own misogyny remains an issue’ as he However, it is unfair to regard Ophelia as
Therefore, Hamana could be accurate in ‘attacks women vehemently’(Lee) too simple to have played a part in her
her claim, as Ophelia goes through This is proven as he demonstrates this own downfall and Macdonald’s opinion
hegemonic masculinity due to the ulterior attitude when in the presence of lends itself to giving a more generously
patriarchal society that she is in women, even his mother, when forcing complex assessment of Ophelia’s
Alternative interactions may argue her against the bed in confrontational character.
Ophelia is not completely innocent as action – Tennent’s adaptation of the play He says she was ‘insane and therefore
there is moments in the play that display shows violent aggression towards innocent of any crime’, adding a layer of
‘miscreant behaviour’ Gertrude development to her character that aligns
Evident in her seemingly promiscuous He goes even further by blaming women with textual evidence that ‘she chanted
and sinful relationship with Hamlet – ‘get for his personal problems, and a snatched of old lauds’ after she fell instead
thee to a nunnery’ contemporary audience would likewise of trying to save herself
blame Ophelia and condemn her for the McDonald’s idea that she was in fact
outcome of Hamlet suicidal increases the complexity and
interest of her character, while
maintaining judgement remains that she
was personally not responsible for her
downfall
Hamlet Abandons Christianity Hamlet’s collapsing sanity can be In both the entrance of the ghost and Hamlet is clearly heavily influenced by the
reflected through his deconstructing Hamlet’s decision not to kill Claudius at Catholic religion, amplified through the
views on Christianity. prayer demonstrates how the play gravedigger setting
, Hamlet constantly considers the option abandons Christian morals Whilst encountering the grave of ‘fair
of suicide as an escape from his woes The ghost in itself is an abandonment of Ophelia’ he encounters the ‘great
and troubles, rather than turning to God varying religios ideals Alexander’ whose fall from grace and
for help, he abhors the fact that God One the one hand, the ghost is the very physical decay startles Hamlet; ‘returneth
prevents him from committing suicide. image of Catholic Christianity in to dust’ he is aware of the limited value of
In his Act 1 Scene 2, after the coronation purgatory, he tells hamlet ‘Remember human life and how easily an individual
of Claudius, Hamlet says ‘His canon me’ and reflects how he died can overcome by death
‘gainst self-slaughter. Oh God, God, how ‘unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled’ – Through the graveyard setting with
weary, stale, flat and unprofitable’. He all evidence seems to point towards the ‘minimal rites’ and ‘open grave’,
questions Christian beliefs, and this ghost being a catholic image, though an Shakespeare indicated the lack of value
ultimately leads to his descent into abandonment of the accepted human life poses, in accordance with the
madness, as he constantly rejects protestant religion following the Catholic perception of resurrection and
Christian values. religious revolution of the 1500s that judgement alongside Christ
Another way in which Hamlet abandons preceded Hamlet Through his appreciation of the decay of
Christianity is through his desire to However, despite initially taking on a the great Alexander, Hamlet suspends his
commit regicide, he wishes to avenge his super-religious form, the ghost abandons status of prince, amplifying not only is
father and follows a course to blood Christian morals by asking Hamlet for awareness of God’s control over his fate
revenge as he promises revenge on vengeance but also the lack of value he feels human
Claudius by exclaiming ‘So my uncle… Greenblatt astutely notes vengeance was life possesses
Remember me. I have sworn’t’. ‘the monopoly of the Almighty’, in Further amplified by Olivier’s 1948
Although Hamlet’s revenge destroys the requesting revenge, the ghost is production wherein a distraught Hamlet
evil which has corrupted Denmark, abandoning any religious standing he grieves for the skull of his former jester, it
Hazlitt claims that ‘Hamlet is as little of a might have been relying on to get him is clear unlike other characters in the play,
hero as men can be’, suggesting that his into heaven he views the soul, not the body as
intentions were never noble, but William would argue for a more subtly significant
perhaps for selfish gain. rejection of Christianity, more Hamlet is thus presented as a typical
Shakespeare uses Hamlet’s specifically Catholic Christianity, in the Aristotelian hero, inebriated by this
abandonment of Christianity to turn him decision Hamlet takes while Claudius is moment of anagnorisis, once he concludes
into an unmoral character, ultimately supposedly at prayer the graveyard amplified the lack of life
leading to his demise and other He ultimately ‘sheaths his sword’ human life poses, he resigns to the fate of
characters in the play. unbloodied, under the thought that dying and concludes he ‘gainst nothing’
When killing Polonius, Hamlet hastily Claudius would be ‘fit and seasoned for from hiding from revenge
disregards the Christian commandment his passage’ to the afterlife Knight inaccurately presents Hamlet as
that one should not kill, as he believed Though this in itself is an abandonment ‘poison in the veins of the community’ as
Polonius was Claudius, his rationality is of Hamlet’s supposed Catholicism, as rather than being corrupt for his desire to
destroyed and his emotions overcome Williams argues, Hamlet would know kill himself, he becomes aware of the
him. that Claudius’ conscience is already necessity of his death for the greater good
Hamlet’s disregard for Christianity leads tainted with patricide and regicide, thus of Denmark, a graphic salvation that
to his decent into villainy and madness, a final prayer would not save him arguably makes him Christ-like
where he lets his emotions overpower Thus, there is some abandonment of his As Greenblatt adequately suggests his
his religious dignity. religion at play, perhaps alluding to his death is a justified reaction to the
mental turmoil that only crescendos ‘uncompensated suffering’ he succumbs to
through the play at his young age, being thrust into a world
The back and forth between religious of regicide, deceit, and corruption leaves
beliefs lends itself only to abandonment the tragic hero with a lack of
of religion itself understanding on what it means to be
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