If there is a SparkNotes, Shmoop, or Cliff Notes guide, we will have it listed. And in a nation where women have already been prosecuted for pregnancy loss, it’s a deeply cathartic viewing experience. Find all available study guides and summaries for OPHELIA by Lisa M. Ophelia does something similar: it’s a gruesome and tragic, yet satisfying depiction of women taking vengeance for the wrongs done against them into their own hands. Shakespeare’s tragedies enable audiences to vicariously experience outsize events while working as cautionary tales-particularly against pursuing vengeance, a pursuit that leads to death, destruction, and, in the case of Titus Andronicus, twisted, pie-related ends. She gets a happy ending far away from Elsinore, where she tells her own story to her young daughter. (Which means that in the film, she dies the same way she does in Shakespeare’s play-but this time by her own choice.) Meanwhile Ophelia chooses to leave a world that values vengeance over justice, and over love. Indeed, Mechtild and Gertrude’s tragedy is compounded by Gertrude’s decision to drink the vial of poison she finds in Claudius’s possession just after killing him. She lacks a matriarchal figure in her life. In desperation, she devises a plan to escape from Elsinore. Their love blossoms in secret, but bloody deeds soon turn Denmark into a place of madness, and Ophelia may be forced to choose between her relationship and her own life.

Born of tragedy, as her mother died, she is brought up with her father, Polonius, and her brother beyond the palace walls. As ambitious and witty as she is beautiful, Ophelia is quick to catch the eye of the captivating prince Hamlet. This is what might have happened to Ophelia if she had survived. “They would use the tools that they already have in their hands, or they’ll use the tools of that world, and that world would bring them down.” Ophelia Written by Lisa Klein Ophelia ’s story emanates from the Shakespearian play Hamlet. “We decided in a world in which women are not valued.they may not have the ability to rewrite their own world, rewrite their own story,” the director said.

Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein