HUMN 303N Week 4 Discussion; Literary Movements
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HUMN 303 Week 4 Discussion: Literary Movements Option 2: Sir John Everett Millais's Ophelia (influenced by Shakespeare's Ophelia from Hamlet) Professor & Class, Option 2: Sir John Everett Millais's Ophelia (influenced by Shakespeare's Ophelia from Hamlet) 9144011117600 Ophelia was created in 1851 and is found in London (Hoe, 2016). The image depicts Ophelia, which is a character from the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. She is said to be singing before she drowns in the river after her lover murders her father. The scene is found in Act IV, Scene VII and the account is told by Queen Gertrude. The speech is as follows ““Out of her mind with grief, Ophelia has been making garlands of wildflowers. She climbs into a willow tree overhanging a brook to dangle some from its branches, and a bough breaks beneath her. She lies in the water singing songs, as if unaware of her danger ("incapable of her own distress"). Her clothes, trapping air, have allowed her to temporarily stay afloat ("Her clothes spread wide, / And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up."). But eventually, "her garments, heav
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