Ophelia in The Waste Land
Ophelia in The Waste Land Eliot uses many allusions to bring about the main point of the poem. We find Ophelia through the chorus of a woman leaving the bar. This chorus- “good night ladies, good night sweet ladies, good night good night.” Eliot refers us to Ophelia’s madness with this line; it is an exact echo of her line in Hamlet. Ophelia in hamlet is a obedient daughter of Polonius and hamlets love interest. She caught between her obedience to her father and her love for hamlet which has tragic consequences. She is separated from normal life because of her madness that is triggered by her father’s death and the banishment of hamlet.She suffered a mysterious death, she accidently falls in the water and then simply neglects to save herself from drowning. Her drowning links her to the image of death by water that recurs throughout the wasteland. Ophelia’s death by water is believed by many to be a suicide. Suicide suggests...