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In this dissertation Shakespeare’s famous play Hamlet’s character Ophelia has been studied through different glasses, and how her character is still relevant in today’s time through music, film adaptations, paintings, etc. Ophelia in Hamlet is a character who is shaped by psychological hardships and is governed by masculine dominance as well as stripped of self-determination and suffers from the collapse of emotional intimacy with her lover and the killing of her father by her own lover; this precipitated her meltdown. Through this study we examined how she evolved to a much wider phase; critics have examined her symbolic drowning. The study closely talks about Ophelia’s relationship with her lover Hamlet, her brother Laertes and father Polonius and what all social constraints she faced being from a royal authority, this study explores her progression from being a minor figure to being a revolutionary sensation by different feminist ideas through Elaine Showalter’s Representing Ophelia.
Richa Singh, and Dr. Rashi Srivastava. ““Representation of Ophelia in Popular Culture: A Critical Study of Her Transformation from Shakespearean Tragedy to Contemporary Media.”.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 2, Apr. 2026, pp. 257–276. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n2.16.
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