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In Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, Ophelia is a character that illustrates fragility, innocence, and dependency. As the daughter of Polonius, a servant to the King, Ophelia is forced to obey her father’s orders and choose between the love of her life and her obedienc ....

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.... states: “Hamlet vents upon Ophelia; it is his sense of outrage at Ophelia, that she could place obedience to her father before her love for him” (194). Hamlet does not understand her obedience to Polonius. Therefore, in the Nunnery Scene, Hamlet confesses to Ophelia that, “I loved you not” (3.1.117). He has too much pride and rage to confess his love for her. In essence, “Pretty Ophelia,” as Claudius calls her, is the most innocent victim of Hamlet’s revenge. Hamlet fell in love with Ophelia after the depressing event of his father’s death. According to Arthur Eastman, Hamlet thought of his mother as a perfection or as an excelle ....