This document appears to be a student paper analyzing the characters of Ophelia and Gertrude from William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The paper is divided into sections discussing Ophelia's obedience, Hamlet's abuse of her, her chastity and madness, and her suicide. For Gertrude, the paper will examine her ambiguity, accusations of cheating and murder, whether she is a self-sacrificing mother, and Hamlet's prejudice against her. The document provides an outline for a student paper analyzing these two characters from Hamlet in one or more literature courses.