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- Title
OPHELIA'S DESIRE.
- Authors
MARINO, JAMES J.
- Abstract
The article analyzes the character of Ophelia as an object of eroticism and sexual desire in the play "Hamlet." It explores Ophelia's madness and hysteria, her obedience to her father and disobedience to the laws of genre as she sacrificed her erotic drives. It discusses the emotional ambivalence and self-abnegation of Ophelia as she serves as Polonius' pawn against Hamlet, the demoniacal possession depicted by filicidal violence, hostility and rebellion, and the taboo of virginity.
- Subjects
HAMLET (Play : Shakespeare); LUST in literature; EROTICISM in literature; WOMEN in literature; HYSTERIA in literature; ANGER in literature; VIRGINITY in literature; VIOLENCE in literature
- Publication
ELH, 2017, Vol 84, Issue 4, p817
- ISSN
0013-8304
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/elh.2017.0031