Ophelia's Song Analysis

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Here, Ophelia is describing an encounter with an unnamed man, who promised her that he would marry Ophelia if she had sex with him. However, the man did not marry her and instead told her that he would have been willing to married her if she didn’t have sex with him. In saying this, Ophelia doesn’t specifically mention Hamlet, but her song implies that she is describing a parallel between Ophelia’s relationship with Hamlet. Ophelia continues on in her song, saying that men are terrible when they want to be. During Ophelia’s poem, Gertrude and Claudius continue to comment on Ophelia’s insanity. Claudius even says “How long hath she been thus?...Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you…” (IV. v. 72, 79) It seems as though Ophelia is

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