Based on what Ophelia tells him, about Hamlet acting in such a "mad" way, Polonius concludes that he was wrong to forbid Ophelia to see Hamlet, and that Hamlet must be mad because of lovesickness for Ophelia. Polonius immediately decides to go to Claudius (the new King of Denmark, and a...
just after his thirty-seventh birthday. As a poet, Rimbaud is well known for his contributions to Symbolism and, among other works, A Season in Hell, which wasa significant precursor to modernist literature. (wikipedia) Works Works published before 1891 Les Étrennes des orphelins (1869) – ...
elizabethan audiences, as well as modern shakespeare aficionados, knew well that the nunnery and the bawdy house were synonymous in bard-era slang. ophelia holds her bouquet, and similar blooms rest on the ground. in floral language, each flower speaks its symbolism: the daisy, here most ...
In French theoretical patriarchal language and symbolism, it remains on the side of negativity, absence, and lack. In comparison to Hamlet, Ophelia is certainly a creature of lack. “I think nothing, my lord,” she tells him in the Mousetrap scene, and he cruelly twists her words: Hamlet:...