Talk:Ophelia

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Ophelia (character) → Ophelia – Ophelia is a redirect to Ophelia (character) with a page history. (Disambiguation page is at Ophelia (disambiguation)). Per KISS principle, Ophelia (character) should be at Ophelia. --Zoz (t) 21:42, 13 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~

• Support - Makes sense. - dharmabum 23:28, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Support--Aldux 20:58, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• SupportPaul B 10:18, 19 June 2006 (UTC) Plus of course a "for other uses..." comment[reply]
• Support - I agree, when most people say "Ophelia", they will mean Hamlet's beloved - 140.177.205.91 01:04, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say being accidentally stabbed behind a curtain once isn't brutal. I've removed it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.110.220.88 (talk) 12:48, 6 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

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Page moved. Eugène van der Pijll 21:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Should we not mention the current idiom, of "ophelia" being a feminist representation of women who don't think for themselves. I hate feminism, and am not representing such in my argument. But when I hear the word "ophelia", it is always used in the sense of "ophelia syndrome," "ophelia learns to swim," "reviving ophelia," etc. --Mrcolj 13:38, 18 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

? 76.195.74.133 (talk) 17:06, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In Gustav Meyrink's The White Dominican, the play it's about Ophelia. Sorry I'm not speak English. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.78.40.43 (talk) 10:54, 25 December 2006 (UTC).[reply]

The list of influences is longer then the article about the character. Maybe some of the less significant influences should be removed? It seems alot of relatively unknown bands mention Ophelia, do we really need a list of every single one? --darkskyz 12:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think almost all of it would be better placed in References to Hamlet, with a summary and a {{details}} link here. Some of it already is in that article. —Celithemis 06:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I split it into a diffrent article, maybe it should be merged with the Hamlet article. darkskyz 12:16, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rufus Wainwright's version of 'Halelujah' doesn't sound like 'mad Ophelia'.. deleted it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.69.92.145 (talk) 10:51, 21 February 2007 (UTC).[reply]

In the anne rices novels Blackwood farm and Blood canticle the character Mona Mayfair calls herself Ophelia Immortal, should this be added to the Art and Literature? James Castle 15:40, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's basically trivia which Wiki frowns on. Pop Culutre references should only be included if they are a) notable, and b) significantly affected how people perceive the original work (and include a sourced description of how the reference did so). 24.190.34.219 (talk) 20:42, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yous a good but whats a goon o a goblin —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.150.195.34 (talk) 17:38, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/get-thee-nunn-ry contains a substantial portion of the middle section of the article; which was the original and which was copied?#### —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.246.191.57 (talk) 09:49, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've nuked the offending text. The text appears wholesale, and word for word (character for character, actually; even the punctuation is identical), in this edit by 65.114.182.10 on May 13th, 2008.

Note that this is not necessarily clear cut. The Internet Archive has no version of this text on the enotes.com page up to February of this year (last version is August 30, which does not contain the relevant paragraphs).

It seems clear either Wikipedia or enotes.com copied the other, but further investigation is required to determine who did the copying. --Xover (talk) 11:28, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Or, we can just accept that this was a rather flowery piece of WP:OR that we don't particularly want to restore to the article anyway. Encyclopedic language doesn't speak of "this heartbreaking scene..." etc. AndyJones (talk) 12:17, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The name "Ophelia" itself was either uncommon or nonexistent; the only known prior text to use the name (as "Ofalia") is Jacopo Sannazaro's Arcadia.

How exactly was the name inexistent?

Warrington (talk) 00:16, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Does "Gertrude's announcement of Ophelia's death is one of the most poetic death announcements in literature" violate NPOV? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.233.146.69 (talk • contribs)

Not if it has a reliable secondary source to back it up, though changing it to "is considered one of the" would also probably help allievate any NPOV issues along with the source. 24.190.34.219 (talk) 20:41, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A few sentences in the plot summary are clearly interpretation. Unless these interpretations are found in secondary sources, they are considered original research and can't be included in the section. I added ^{[original research?]} tags in hopes someone can find a source to support these claims, or else they will have to be removed.24.190.34.219 (talk) 20:37, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

News on June 8 stated she was based on a cousin on Shakespeare. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:56, 8 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I thought that all references to a "nunnery" in Shakespeare actually refer to a brothel, the article doesn't mention this, and the link is actually misleading. PatGallacher (talk) 21:28, 12 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@PatGallacher: It's not so simple as "all references to nunnery actually refer to a brothel". Even if we accept that nunnery == brothel in Elizabethan slang—and there is some scholarly disagreement over the evidence for this—if Shakespeare had simply meant "go to a whorehouse" he would have written "go to a whorehouse". The point there is the pun, the double entendre: Hamlet is outwardly speaking piously, suggesting Ophelia take religious orders and live in a convent; but the coarser part of the audience will hear the doubled meaning, that Hamlet condemns her to go live in a whorehouse. Hamlet, particularly, is all about this inner meaning vs. outer appearance stuff (cf. the illustration I've cribbed from Hamlet).

In fact, Shakespeare was so fond of punning that Samuel Johnson, in the Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare (I quote the 1778 edition edited by George Steevens), writes:

All that being said though, this article could beneficially cover this, and even in more depth than the main Hamlet article. --Xover (talk) 03:46, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, to provide an immediate patch I've clarified this point, with a note referring to Hamlet#Language. A more scholarly revision will be welcome. . dave souza, talk 19:21, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This section has a tenuous relationship with the subject matter at best. Frankly looks like it was inserted by Ms. Pipher herself. I'm no editor here, but I would delete the section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by KingdeInternet (talk • contribs) 15:37, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This article currently states that the original Italian of Sannazaro had "Ofelia". But all the old copies I was able to find online had "Ophelia":

• 1514: "Ophelia in contrario diceua eſſer ſuo, et con ambe le mani ſi tenea per le corna il guadagnato ariete."
• 1524: "Ophelia in cõtrario diceua eſſer ſuo, & con ambe le mani ſi tenea per le corna il guadagnato ariete."
• 1534: "Ophelia in contrario diceua eſſer ſuo, & con ambe le mani ſi tenea per le corna il guadagnato ariete."

If anyone can find an earlier copy with "f", that would be interesting to see. 98.170.164.88 (talk) 17:24, 15 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]