Weekly Blog: Week 13

This week we examined art that portrays Ophelia. There were so many views of her, but I thought most of them make her seem helpless, as if she is waiting to be saved. Ophelia demonstrates the classic 'damsel in distress' by being thrown around by men, waiting for one of them to end the madness and allow her to be her own person. She is manipulated and objectified throughout the play, and in the end, she gives up. She is done waiting for someone to save her, and she can't handle being controlled any longer.