Part one of term paper
The Innocence of Gertrude and Ophelia “Pretty Ophelia,� as Claudius calls her, is the most innocent victim of Hamlet’s revenge in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Hamlet has fallen in love with Ophelia after the death of his father. Ophelia “sucked the honey of his music vows� and returned Hamlet’s affection. But when her father ha ...

Part two of term paper
... of her and to obey her father’s orders not to permit Hamlet to see her again. Hamlet has the disillusion that women are frail after his mother’s rushed remarriage as shown by “Frailty, thy name is woman!� He also believes women do not have the power to reason. (“O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason.�) Ophelia has the power to change his view but her unexplained rejection of him only adds to Hamlet’s disillusion. The ghost’s revelation that Gertrude dishonored ...