Ophelia brothel. Polonius instructs Ophelia to stand in the lobby of the castle while he and Claudius hide. Hamlet approaches Ophelia and talks to her, saying "Get thee to a nunnery." Hamlet asks Ophelia where her father is and she lies to him, saying her father must be at home. Hamlet realises he is being spied upon. He exits after declaring, "I say we will have no more marriages." Ophelia is left bewildered and heartbroken, sure that Hamlet is insane. She knows that ultimately it is she that broke him because she lied. She was the woman he had loved and
The River Ophelia are “successful” only at a surface level. Some scholars have called "The River Ophelia" a feminist text. "The River Ophelia" received a divisive response from Australian critics. It was reviewed in various prominent Australian newspapers, such as "The Sydney Morning Herald", "The Age" and "The Australian". Some praised it for its sardonic and satirical approach to the lives of privileged young white university students and yuppies in Sydney's upper-class suburbs, while others dismissed it as being too obscene, violent and sexually explicit. Critic Don Anderson called the novel a "marriage between Helen Garner and the Marquis de Sade". Some critics