Ophelia : In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, daughter of Polonius.
... was a noble man but degenerated through selfish ambition into an unfaithful murderer; Hamlet was also a noble man, but besieged by dualities, indecisions and doubts, he ruined his soul, happiness of Ophelia and drew the curtain of death over several others. Othello was a great lover but stung by jealousy, he smothered his most beloved wife and then ended his own life. And King Lear became a victim of ...
... bond that steel cannot divide, nor death dissever. 113 It is clear the play was intended to have a happy ending—a purposeful Hamlet achieving his father's crown and marrying a determined Ophelia! The blank verse is colourful and the imagery is rich, and Page 51 although we are reading verse that wasn't finally revised, the Aurobindonian touch is unmistakable: ...
... essential importance both to the conduct of the play & the full revelation of its protagonist. Yet madness is hardly the precise word for the condition of Pururavus; he is not mad like Lear or Ophelia; 3 it is rather a temporary exaltation than a perversion or aberration from his natural state. An extraordinarily vivid & active imagination which has always felt a poetic sense of mind & sympathy ...
... much-coveted peace has to a certain extent been restored to the country and what little of unrest still exists will pass away as soon as Mr. Gokhale will say "Amen." Unlike the grave-diggers of Ophelia Mr. Gokhale wants to make the extinction of British autocracy in India quite an unchristian procedure. Here lies the Empire, good; here stands India, good; if India goes to this Empire and prays for ...
... polyphonic, polychromatic rhapsody. Once again, it is worth quoting Sri Aurobindo himself about Pururavas in a frenzy of frustration in love and poetising exuberance: ...he is not mad like Lear or Ophelia; it is rather a temporary exaltation than a perversion or aberration from his natural state.... The whole essential temperament of the man comes whirling out in a gyrating pomp of tropes, fancies ...
... in our brain, any figurative view of it as in the Porter's Page 360 expression in Shakespeare's Macbeth: . . . go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire" or else as in Ophelia's speech to her - : brother Laertes in Hamlet: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself ...
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