Polonius’s daughter, a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love. Ophelia is a sweet and innocent young girl, who obeys her father and her brother, Laertes. Dependent on men to tell her how to behave, she gives in to Polonius’s schemes to spy on Hamlet. Even in her lapse into madness and death, she remains maidenly, singing songs about flowers and finally drowning in the river amid the flower garlands she had gathered.
Opelia is a character in the play Hamelt by Shakespeare(1600).
As depicted here in the film Hamlet(1996) by Kate Winslet.
The drowning in the river sparks paintings and photographs names Ophelia.
Ophelia is a painting by Sir John Everett Millais.
This is similar to the photograph by Gregory Crewdson as it is a women in water, the women in the painting is said to have drowned. It was completed between 1851-52.
There have been other images of Ophilia.
Arthur Hughes (1851-53)
This is a painting of a pale creature sitting under a willow tree, contemplating the waters at her feet, the garland in her hair and the herbs and flowers in her hands. He purposely painted her as fragile and unbearably sad.
Alexandre Cabanel (1883)
This shows Ophelia slipping gracefully into the water using a broken branch from the willow tree.
John William Waterhouse (1894)
This is a painting of Ophelia putting a garland of flowers into her hair. She is sitting near the area where she meets her own fate.
Stanley William Hayter (1963)
This is a abstract painting.
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