Key

• ‘Show me the steep way to heaven‘
• Laertes compares Hamlet to ‘a violet in the toughness of primy nature‘
• Polonius ’You do not understand yourself if as clearly as it behoves my daughter and your honour‘
• David Leverenz ‘Through her impossible attempts to obey contradictory voices, Ophelia mirrors in her madness the tensions that Hamlet percieves‘
• tragic heroine
• ‘O woe is me, to see what I have seen, see what I see‘
• Her death presents the complexities of a tragic hero
• suicide may have been an escape from the men in her life
• Flowers through the play indicate the different attributes to the characters