Ophelia in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

摘要

The play begins with Hamlet meeting his deceased father's ghost. The ghost reveals how he was murdered by his own brother, who has now married his widow, Hamlet's mother. Following the ghost's visitation Hamlet's emotional and behavioural turmoil escalates. He rejects fair Ophelia and accidentally kills her father Polonius. Audiences understand how Hamlet wrestles with continuing suicidal and homicidal urges as the plot progresses. Hamlet's soliloquies during Act III and IV reveal the turbulent emotional and intellectual inner world of a desperate man. We understand Hamlet's destructive urges, 'Now could I drink hot blood'.