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parallels between Ophelia and Hamlet
Good point, I'll incorporate that. [[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]]
Good point, I'll incorporate that. [[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]]
==Ophelia==
I don't think we give enough attention to Ophelia. She had it rough. Although we don't know how deeply they were involved, she may have been sleeping with Hamlet. If so, it would be ever so much painful to find out, after being told to break up with her boyfriend, that he had killed her father.
There's a kind of parallel between Ophelia and Hamlet.
*Each lost a father
*#Hamlet's father was murdered by his brother
*#Ophelia's father was killed by Hamlet
*Each seemed to go crazy after finding out who caused their father's death
*#Hamlet pretended to be mad, while preparing to take revenge on his uncle (his mother's husband!)
*#Ophelia might not have been pretending, and had no way to take revenge on anyone other than by killing herself
--[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 20:41, 12 January 2008 (EST)