William Shakespeare's play Hamlet features the character of Ophelia. She is Polonius' daughter, a beautiful and innocent young noblewoman of Denmark. Ophelia is depicted as faithful, obedient, and totally dependent on the male characters in her life. Throughout the play, she is used as a pawn by her father Polonius and her lover Hamlet. Her madness and death result from the actions of the men around her, highlighting Shakespeare's portrayal of women as weak and submissive.

1. welcome

2. Name : Cauhan Hetal M
Roll no. : 16
Topic :Character Of Ophelia
Email :hetalchauhan137@gmail.com
Batch :M.A Sem-1 (2017)
Submitted to : Maharaja Krushnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University,Department Of English
Paper no 1:Renaissance Literature

3. William Shakespeare

4. Introduction about writer
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He was born
on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father was a successful local
businessman and his mother was the daughter of a landowner. Shakespeare is
widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's
pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and nicknamed
the Bard of Avon. He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative
poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorship of some is uncertain. His
plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed
more often than those of any other playwright.He died on 23 April 1616.
His work
Hamlet
Othello
King Lear and
Macbeth

5. lTital of the play: THE TRAGEDY OF THE
HAMLET ,PRINCE OF DENMARK
lAuthor: William Shakespeare
lType Of Work:Play
lGenere :Tragedy
lLanguage: English

6. Character of Opelia
*She is polonius daughter.she
is heroine and main female
character of the play
* young noble women of
denmark,beautiful
* faithful and obedient
* lovely and innocence
* totally depend on male
character
* epitone of goodness
* she love her father and
brother and subservient to father
* pawn and possession used
by all the men in her life

7. Ophelia's roll in 'Hamlet'
lOphelia is a difficult role to play
because her character like Gertrude's is
murky... to her father and
brother.ophelia is the eternal virgin, the
vessel of morality whose purpose is to
be a dutiful wife and steadfast
mother,To Hamlet,she is a sexual
object,a corrupt and deceiteful lover.

8. Opelia singing about
l When Ophelia's father is “dead and
gone,”but so is king Hamlet ,and
perhaps ophelia is singing as one bereft
women to another,enter king:as ophelia
is singing of the funeral of the one who
is “dead and gone,”the king enters,and
ophelia properly changes a line of the
old ballad.

9. Scene of nunnery
lHamlet behaves cruelly with ophelia
in one of the nunnery scene.
lHamlet uses abusing to ophelia
lHamlet say to ophelia that ''go to
nunnery”
lThough ophelia good speak about
Hamlet

10. Ophelia's Madness

11. lHamlet killes polonius during a private
meeting between Hamlet and his
mother,queen gertrude. At ophelia's
next appearance,after her fathers
death, she gone mad, due to what the
other characters interpret as grief for
her father.

12. conclusion
In the play women are characterized as
weak and submissive and as obedient and
compliant women seen more like than
characters the women are meek.
Ophelia end up dying for the men that
''loved''hamlet.In short women in this play
are easily manipulated,weak,object to men,
no individuality,limeted roles.

13. Thank you