Hamlet Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Hamlet and Othello.

Hamlet Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Hamlet and Othello.
This section contains 952 words
(approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page)
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Hamlet and Othello: Ophelia and Desdemona

Summary: Ophelia and Desdemona play the role of the "innocent lady" in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and "Othello."
Ophelia and Desdemona play the role of the "innocent lady" in Shakespeare's Hamlet and Othello. The roles of these characters provide a sense of completeness, faithfulness, and obedience to the leading male figures. In both plays, these innocent ladies end up dying. These deaths are both due to a false rejection of love. Othello kills Desdemona because he believes her love is false, and Ophelia dies ultimately because she reads Hamlet's mask of madness as rejection. These deaths exemplify the pattern of harmony turning to chaos in both of these plays, and provide proof of the decay that is spreading to everyone in Venice and Denmark.

In Hamlet, Ophelia is unaware of the evil is spreading around her. She is an obedient woman, and is naive in that she takes what people say at face value, which makes her an innocent lady. "You should not have believed me...

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