1883. There she sat. Staring blankly at the rotten, white wall. The enclosed room was rather small: only one window with bars securing it. Ophelia thought and thought. She thought how one day she will get her revenge on this inhuman place. The one she was sent to because she could do things and think things that would appear in regular people's’ nightmares. Ophelia was this young, withered girl with black eyes like a dark tunnel and black hair to match her beady eyes. She could use her words to physically hurt anyone who vexed her. So, the doctors had to take precautionary measures and sew her mouth shut with twine. Ophelia had a horrible infection on both her legs to the point where she was not able to walk. The doctors decided to amputate …show more content…
Considering she didn’t have any homework, Alex went to the asylum and brought an Ouija board. A small voice in the back of Alex’s head cooed how there might be a possibility that the strange occurrence from last night might have something to do with this strange asylum. Taking one step onto the dead, brown grass, Alex’s bones started to shiver, hair roze, skin tingling. A few more steps she thought, then I will be able to see what this place is hiding. As Alex approached the large entrance, she noticed a small plaque on the ground surrounded by overgrown weeds. It read, “For those who are in need-Klyde Silverstein, 1850”. This insane asylum was approaching 128 years old. Alex took a step inside, stretching her neck to see around each curve and corner. She inhaled deeply, breathing in the musky smell of the asylum. Alex continued down the hall from the front desk, exploring every square inch. Four rooms down to right, a room seemed to jump out at here. Curiosity took over. Alex entered the peculiar room, noticing red letters on the wall. The room was rather dark considering there was only one small window, but Alex could make out only of few words, “One day…”, the rest was drawings and other unclear words. Next to the bed, there seemed to be a radio. For the next ten minutes, Alex set up her Ouija board and the candles in the unique room. Placing her …show more content…
One thing is for sure, Alex had to get to Ophelia’s dead body in the asylum’s graveyard before she does herself. Hurriedly, Alex starts to walk fast, pivoting her head in all directions to see if Ophelia was there. Until some sound, a distant sound, stopped her right in her tracks. Click…..clack…..drag, click….clack….drag, click….clack….drag. The sound was getting closer! Alex could hear her head beating and beating. Fear took over and Alex sprinted to the graveyard. As while the sound, click...clack...drag, speeding up and getting nearer. At last! Alex reached the double doors to the outside graveyard. She carefully opened the door, and stepped outside. Immediately, Alex started looking for Ophelia’s grave. Alex finally found it after five minutes of looking. Using her hands, Alex began digging up the grave. Once she reached the caskett, Alex opened it to see a withered innocent looking girl with no legs and a sewn mouth. She had to free Ophelia! She knew it. She had to. Alex threw salt and holy water onto Ophelia’s body and struck a match. Suddenly, the match went out and Alex felt something strange near her back. A loud scream erupted and Alex quickly turned around to become face-to-face with Ophelia’s spirit. Her eyes were sunken, mouth bloody from stretching her lips apart and hair knotted and stringy. Alex lit another match and flung it on Ophelia’s dead body. The body
Ophelia’s mental strength quickly dissipates due to multiple happenings in the play. The man that she once thought she was in love with kills her father, driving her into the dark abyss of grief. She begins to fall into madness, “...speaks things in doubt /That carry but half sense /Her speech is nothing” (3.3.7-8). She begins to jabber on about nonsense. She loses her ability to think, “...poor Ophelia /Divided from herself and her fair judgment” (4.5.91-92). Others see her as an emotional wreck, falling farther and farther into insanity. She finally can’t take it anymore, so she ends her own life, “As we have warranty. Her death was doubtful” (5.1.234). Others saw Ophelia in a dark light, saying that she took her own life, and that she did not deserve a nobel burial. Ophelia was driven into mania by a combination of negative things, that in the end, lead to her taking her own
Under the orders of her husband, the narrator is moved to a house far from society in the country, where she is locked into an upstairs room. This environment serves not as an inspiration for mental health, but as an element of repression. The locked door and barred windows serve to physically restrain her: “the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.” The narrator is affected not only by the physical restraints but also by being exposed to the room’s yellow wallpaper which is dreadful and fosters only negative creativity. “It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide – plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”
She comes in at Artíme and completely destroys everything. While that is happening, the pirates come into Quill and kidnap Aaron, who they think is Alex because they look alike. The reason they try and kidnap Alex is because he stole all of their trapped animals and took one of their slaves. This really made Alex mad even though Aaron is a really bad person. He would not wish it upon anyone to be kidnapped.
Ophelia at this point seems to be in a mad state due to her father's
At the bank where Alex’s uncle's office had been, an undercover MI6 agent greeted him and said the door was locked. When she left the room to take a phone call, Alex crawled out a
anymore, she takes her own life. There were a few witnesses that saw how Ophelia dies; they try
Ophelia is a perfect example of how the poison of revenge of the kingdom of Elsinore does not only affect the person committing these acts, and as the victim, but the innocent bystanders as well. Originally Ophelia had nothing to do with King Hamlet’s unjust death, but her relationship and involvement with Hamlet, her father, and Claudius and Gertrude is enough to make her a lunatic and at last her deplorable death. Shakespeare shows Ophelia’s heartbreaking downfall in her speeches after her father’s passing “There’s/ rue for you, and here’s some for me.../Oh, you must wear your rue with a difference.—There’s a daisy. I would/ give you some violets, but they withered all when/ my father died. They say he made a good end”
The scene started when Dana walked into the barn where once she had been whipped. She tried to get used to the darkness. After a few seconds, she saw someone hanging by the neck. The person hanging was Alice. Dana looked at her and touched her not believing what she was seeing. She looked at Alice's dress, shoes and hair. Dana thought that Alice had dressed up for her death. Dana cut the rope to take her down. Rufus finally walked in. He did not want to look at Dana. Dana asked Rufus if she did it that to herself and he answered yes. Then, Dana asked him for the reason but she did not get an answer. She desired to ask about Alice's children. Rufus moved his head and walked out of the bard.
Not long after, he killed her father. Ophelia is an obedient child who always looked to her father to make decisions. She is almost incapable of functioning on her own. With her father no longer there, she has gone mad. She speaks only in songs that emphasize negativity such as her father’s death (4.5, 34).
She eventually drowned herself with "fantastic garlands did she make. Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples" (Shakespeare 117). Ophelia, couldn't handle the expectations placed on her. She wanted something more than her family allowed her too
Alex excelled at “transforming herself into the person she needed to be before she left the house,” (Picoult 5) incidentally pushing her daughter out of her tight circle of importance. Alex then becomes stuck in the middle of maintaining her judicial status and raising Josie. For the majority of the time before the shooting, Alex remains nearly entirely focused on her career in the hopes that her daughter can and will take care of herself, thus creating an obsession for working and giving little time for anything
Ophelia is conditioned to obey Polonius and Laertes’ commands, thinly veiled as guidance for her “own good.” She is never trusted to have a mind of her own, often having her intelligence openly insulted, causing her to be dependent on the men in her life. These men exercise authority over her, patronize, and degrade her, lowering her self-esteem to a non-existent level, and leaving her a...
Ophelia died after collecting flowers from over a brook. I think that she was collecting them to distribute to the court, as she did after her father’s death. Flowers are a symbol of innocence, pure and easily destroyed. The tree she was crawling along whilst collecting these garlands was a willow, which is usually associated with weeping and grief, something we have assigned to the “watery” (perhaps with tears) character of Ophelia. The branches of a willow hang down towards the ground in a downcast fashion, indicating grief. The personification even extends to her garments that were “too heavy with heir drink.” The ...
Poor Ophelia lost everything. She lost her lover and the social position and security that would have come when she became Hamlet's wife. She lost her father and an honorable burial and her trust and respect for her Queen and King. Finally, she lost her life. The innocent destroyed with the deceitful. Perhaps Shakespeare used Ophelia's innocence to provide an even greater contrast to the deceit of the characters that engulfed her.
In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Ophelia is the most static character in the play. Instead of changing through the course of the play, she remains suffering in the misfortunes perpetrated upon her. She falls into insanity and dies a tragic death. Ophelia has issues surviving without a male influence, and her downfall is when all the men in her life abandon her. Hamlet’s Ophelia, is a tragic, insane character that cannot exist on her own.