Ophelia In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Many lessons can be taken from Ophelia's fall in William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet. Watching Ophelia go from a perfectly sane character to an absolutely insane, tragic one forces you to make realizations about life that affect the way that you live. Ophelia's transformation taught me couple of lessons. First it taught me that I should not become too attached to something, or put all of my eggs into one basket. Secondly Ophelia's transformation taught me that others people's remarks should be taken with a grain of salt sometimes. These lessons are things that I hope to employ in my life after McQuaid. The first lesson that I took away from reading Hamlet and watching Ophelia transform was that I should diversify my interests. I know that this may seem cruel because Ophelia

In the play Ophelia took Hamlet's verbal assault so hard that it really proved a point to me; if I take everything that somebody says to me or about me, I will have no self confidence or dignity. When Ophelia was verbally decimated by Hamlet, she felt awful, like she had almost no self worth. This is a feeling that I hope to never experience in my future. I can accomplish this by taking criticism with a grain of salt. I cannot take offense to everything that people say, and I cannot take everybody seriously. In Hamlet, Ophelia took everything that Hamlet said about her to heart and it reflected on her character. Ophelia should not have taken Hamlet's insults so seriously. Hamlet was obviously not acting like himself, and as the reader knows Hamlet is feigning madness. All of these factors just show me that not everything that everybody says should be taken to heart, some statements and insults are completely empty. The ability to keep a thick skin and deflect empty attacks is something that I think will be very valuable as I leave McQuaid and enter a new