Choose one of the interpretations below of one of the major characters in the play Hamlet. Your job will be to develop and defend this interpretation of the character by gathering quotations and other kinds of evidence from the play to prove your case. Hamlet is:
a bratty, spoiled child a philosopher a tragic victum an unhappy adolescent a man of the theatre a loyal son a clever strategist a scholarly, bookish man a noble man in an ignoble world or
Ophelia is: a loyal daughter a slave to circumstance and her society an independent women Hamlet’s intellectual equal a weak character