activity 1.4

Thesis: Was it the proper thing for her brother and Leartes to give Ophelia advice on what adn how to spend her life?

Reason: Leartes was trying to protect her being the only parent in this family, he has a stronger need to protect his daughter

Example: He tells her before anyhtign is said about the romance of Hamlet and Ophelia to stay clear of him that he is to be watched for. Being carefull that his daughter does nto get stuck in an unfortunate situation.

Example: When he finds out what Hamlet has done to his daughter, he forces her to go the the king and queen and read the note that he has written her.

Reason: Her father is the only parent in this family, and so he has become ver overprotective, creating an obediant atmosphere to grow up in. Her forced obedience affects teh way that she lives her life.

Example: Being so close to her father, she tells him everyhting that happens with her life. An example of this would be when she rushes into her fathers room and cries to him what Hamlet has done to her. This act shows he rlove and closeness to her father.

Example: She also obeys her father as he forces her to tell her lover that she can not see him any more. She never would have done this on her own, being underpressure to adn having he rlife controled for her.

Reason: All this advice, and forcefull obediencs has lead her down a path of madness and trouble rather then the path Leartes had intended her to go down.

Example: As she is ripped away fro the one she loves, she starts to go a little mad. All these little things that she is forced to do has finally brought her to a breaking pointleaving her mad and alone to melt in her problems.

Example: As she is getitng treated for her madness, this breaks her over the edge, and she can no longer take the lonelness, the pressure and theconstant obediance of her father adn brother anylonger. At this point she has nothign left to do but kill herself.

Conclusion: With all the forceull actions upon the father at this time when her lover gets ripped away, and her father dies, everything she knows is gone, adn so she has nothing left. The advice from her father was well given, but at teh wrong itme, and much too forecfull. for these terrible events to have not happened, lartease would ahve had to let go of his little girl just a bit more.