Blog Post #12: Hamlet Characters Discussion

In my blog about the characters of Hamlet I have decided to focus on the perspective of Ophelia, Polonius's daughter. I was really drawn to experimenting with and learning about her character because it was incredibly hard to be a woman in the time of the play. She was constantly told what to do and eventually driven mad by her decisions and expectations from everyone around her, and couldn't voice her opinion in what she wanted and the decisions she made. Similarly, the theme that I chose is 'action vs. inaction' because of Ophelia's inability to follow what her heart said because of what her father demanded of her (inaction) and actually having that passionate love to take part in with Hamlet throughout the play (action). Ophelia can be considered very social media relevant is because due to the increase in blogging, tweeting, facebooking, vineing, etc, the idea of feminism and women voicing their own opinions has become a very big fad. Therefore, if Ophelia were placed in our time, she would be able to make her own choices and be with Hamlet like she wanted to and even tweet about it.