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In what ways does Shakespeare use dialogue, monologues, and soliloquies to…
In what ways does Shakespeare use dialogue, monologues, and soliloquies to characterize Ophelia.
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Shakespeare uses Ophelia to portray women as being torn between family, duty, and love in high class society. (personality)
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Act 3, Scene iii. Hamlet: Is this a prologue or the post of a ring.
Ophelia: Tis brief, my lord
Hamlet: As a woman's love
Act 3, Scene i "I was the more deceiv’d" Ophelia to Hamlet
Act 2, Scene i. Polonius: Mad for thy love?
Ophelia: My lord, i do not know, but truly i do fear it.
Shakespeare’s change in Ophelias monologues, dialogues, and soliloquies illustrates her falling into emotional turmoil. (development)
Act 4. "I would give you some violets, but they wither’d all when my father died. They say a’made a good end - [sings.] ‘For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy."
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Act 4, Scene v
Ophelias songs symbolise her inner thoughts in her final moments, as she decends into madness she sings many songs relating to her own experience.
"He is dead and gone, lady. Dead and gone. At his head a gree-grass tuft. At his heels a stone" Ophelia sings
Talking about her father and her mourning his loss, even though he was a controlling and manipulating figure in her life
"How should I yout true love know, from antoher one? By his cockle hat and staff, and his sandal shoon."
Singing about the loss of true love, also pondering if the love was true. Talking about Hamlet
"Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, dupp'd the chamber door, let in the maid, that out a maid, never departed more"
Young maid who loses her virginity before marriage. Suggesting that Ophelia slept with Hamlet, and she is feeling guilty about it.