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    Betray in Oryx and Crake

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    In the text people believe that the blysspluss pill was used to help people but that was used to wipe out humanity. The significance of this is because in the film Pyle makes it look like he is using the diolacton for the frames of glasses but he betrays his own and kills them. In the text Crake betrayed humanity by making the pill to wipe out humanity. The betrayal to humanity quickly escalated to Jimmy betraying his own friend Crake and Fowler betraying Pyle. Fowler suspected that Pyle was using

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    Hamlet does not love Ophelia because all through the play he is playing with her mind witch leads to her insanity. Weather it is using her‚ telling her she is a "whore" or telling her straight up that he does not love her. Also he does not feel bad or try to comfort her when she finds out he killed her dad and she is upset. All of this makes her go crazy and leads to her suicide. The first reason Hamlet does not love her is because in the play that she is a slut and that he just plain out does

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    Reviving Ophelia

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    Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher‚ Ph.D Chapters 1 - 3. 1. When Piper states “Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence”‚ what does she mean? Give examples. 2. Identify three factors that make girls vulnerable. 3. How to girls sometimes react to rape? 4. Briefly describe how adolescence affects young girls in the following areas: Physical (Selves) Emotional Thinking Academic Social Arena with family Social

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    THE ROLES OF LAERTES AND OPHELIA AS CHARACTER FOILS TO HAMLET "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea‚ and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy‚ As he is very potent with such spirits‚ Abuses to damn me:" (2.2.58) In William Shakespeare’s classic drama‚ ’Hamlet’‚ the titular protagonist‚ Hamlet‚ is a dynamic‚ round character with constantly evolving traits. The character Hamlet‚ himself‚ interestingly‚ is not noted for

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    Ophelia associates with Hamlet because she loves in his noble status‚ and she imagined that Hamlet should be a good person like a gentleman as his high status. So‚ she wants true love with him but when Hamlet got mad‚ he turned to be another person like a bad guy. In this soliloquy‚ she complains about her bad fortune that she associated with Hamlet. She though that Hamlet position doesn’t look as good as it should be. She talks about her relationship with him and though how it should be in the future

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    the play Gertrude and Ophelia both of whom are passive (this is more expected of Ophelia given that she is a minor personage) in the play’s escalating drama and somewhat marginalised.Hamlet generally regards his mother as ‘corrupt’ and ‘lustful’ given her relationship with Claudius. Another iconic scene would be the ‘Nunnery Scene’ (Act 3 Scene 1). During a heated moment in the play Ophelia is told to go to nunnery by Hamlet after she returns his . “Get thee to a nunnery” Hamlet exclaims Hamlet’s

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    Ophelia Monologue

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    thing still sits all clumpy and heavy looking as she readjusts it in her own arms. "Nothing‚ really." I don’t push it. "You’re Ophelia‚ huh?" She sighs as if it’s a bad thing‚ repeating me. "The one and only‚" I know this girl like everyone in the school knows her. She sits with the people who hate me and laughs with them and maybe get’s drunk with them too. Ophelia Waters is a big shot because she was the only one person who knew how to do something useful of all her friends‚ and that was rollerblading

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    Even as a minor character in the play Hamlet‚ the character Ophelia plays a vital part in the development of both the plot and thematic ideas. However‚ Ophelia is an extremely complicated character as she can be read in many different ways. This in effect causes the readers or audience to be more insightful and gain a greater understanding of the plot and thematic ideas in the play such as "Love and Loyalty‚" and "Madness." When exploring the character of Ophelia we must take into consideration personal

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    prevailing view of Shakespeare’s character Ophelia as a fragile‚ subservient character‚ she possesses inherent emotional and intellectual complexity that has been suppressed by familial and societal obligations. A victim of patriarchal oppression and rejection‚ Ophelia is‚ in truth‚ a multi-dimensional figure displaying the intellectual and emotional intricacies of womanhood when confronted with the burdens of society. It seems on the surface that Ophelia is a simple-minded‚ easily dominated girl

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    Jonathan Robinson English Comp II Mark Barnes April 19‚ 2013 “The Madness & Death of OpheliaHamlet‚ Prince of Denmark: By; William Shakespeare In Hamlet‚ Shakespeare makes it clear that Prince Hamlet is insane or at least on the verge of “madness.” However‚ Ophelia (daughter of Polonius‚ King of Denmark) begins to go mad‚ as well‚ after Hamlet kills her father‚ and the other numerous tragedies that plague her like a black cloud hovering about until her untimely death. In this literary

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