The document analyzes the portrayals of four literary characters: Ophelia, Hester Prynne, Hermione Granger, and Sophie Neveu, highlighting themes of love, duty, and moral complexity. Ophelia is depicted as a symbol of innocence and victimization, Hester as a multifaceted figure balancing sin and redemption, Hermione as a model of intelligence and bravery, and Sophie as a strong, intelligent protagonist with divine lineage. Each character's journey reflects their roles and challenges within their respective narratives, emphasizing broader societal themes.

1. Portrayal of Ophelia, Hester, Hermione, and
Sophie in Literature
Course No.: 14 [The African Literature]
Batch: 2014-16
Name: Vanita Tadha
Roll No.: 30
Qualification: MA Part–2 [Sem-4]
Enrollment No.: Pg14101029
Email ID: tadhavanita90@gmail.com
Submitted to: Department of English, Maharaja
Krishnakumarsihji Bhavnagar University,
Gujarat, India.
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2. Ophelia Hester
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3.  Love and duty
 Did Hamlet love Ophelia?
 Hamlet: ...I did love you once.
 Ophelia: Indeed, my, lord, you made me believe so.
 Hamlet: You should not have believed me...I loved you not.
 Ophelia: I was the more deceived.
 Abusive boyfriend
 “Filthy thy name is women”
 Ophelia is the epitome of goodness
 Sexual conduct frequently arise.
 “Get thee to a nunnery!”
 “are you honest?”
 Shakespeare has restricted her
 Good gone bad
 "Her whole character is that of simple unselfish affection"
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4.  Why Hester Is a Whore?
 Strong, beautiful, individual, winner, sinner, victim, honest,
unfaithful.
 Physically described:
 "figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.”
 Punishment changed her appearance:
 “her beauty, the warmth and richness of her womanhood, departed, like
fading sunshine; and a gray shadow seemed to fall across her.”
 Start out bad but turn out good in the end.
 How is Hester Prynne A Transcendentalist?
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5.  Positivity
 " Do you see that woman with the embroidered badge? It is our
Hester, -the town's own Hester, who is so kind to the poor, so
helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!"
 “A” :
 “fantastic flourishes of gold-thread,”
 angel of mercy
 Hester as an dutiful:
 "God gave her into my keeping. I will not give her up!"
 Puritan pessimism:
 " Let us not look back, for the past is gone! Wherefore should we
linger upon it now? See! With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it
as it had never been! There is happiness to be enjoyed! There is
good to be done! Exchange this false life of thine for a true one."
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6.  Hermione is belongs to the ‘ Muggle – world. And , she also
known as ‘Mud – blood’.
 Brave, beautiful, innocent, smart and most clever student of
Hogwarts school in her age.
 Ginny Weasley : "Hermione told me to get on with life, maybe go out
with some other people, relax a bit around you, because I never used to
be able to talk if you were in the room, remember? And she thought you
might take a bit more notice if I was a bit more — myself."
 Harry Potter: “Smart girl, that Hermione.”
 Studious
 Harry Potter: “But why's she got to go to the library?”
 Ronald Weasley: “Because that's what Hermione does. When in doubt,
go to the library.”
 logic
 “Second — to Miss Hermione Granger... for the use of cool logic in the face of
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7.  Selflessness, sacrifice, morality, love and friendship
 Hermione: "But Harry, you've just said it. Dumbledore wanted you to
learn to shut these things out of your mind, if you'd done
Occlumency properly you'd never seen this —"
 Harry Potter: "IF YOU THINK I'M JUST GOING TO ACT LIKE I
HAVEN'T SEEN —"
 Hermione: "Sirius told you there was nothing more important than
you learning to close your mind"
 Harry Potter: "WELL, I EXPECT HE'D SAY SOMETHING
DIFFERENT IF HE KNEW WHAT I'D JUST —"
 Magical ability and skills:
 “An' they haven't invented a spell our Hermione can' do.”
 Anger
 "You foul, loathsome, evil little cockroach!“
 Beautiful
 Krum: "never felt this way about any other girl"
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8.  She is a French National Police cryptographer,
who studied at the Royal Holloway, University
of London Information Security Group.
 Feminine sacredness:
 A cryptologist with the French Judicial Police,
and the female protagonist of the novel.
Sophie, who is about thirty years old, is
attractive, single, compassionate, and very
intelligent.
 She is also a descendent of Jesus and Mary
Magdalene.
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9.  Sophie Neveu’s red hair, mentioned at the beginning
of the text, foreshadows her divine blood. When
Langdon first sees Sophie, he calls her hair “burgundy”
and thinks that her attractiveness lies in her
confidence and health.
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10.  Beautiful and intellectual
 Harry Potter: "Listen!“
 Hermione: “No, Harry, you listen. We're coming with you. That was
decided months ago — years, really.”
 Different skill and quality
 Tragic heroin
 Genuineness, sacrifice and virginity.
 Passive, Victim, Whore
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