Ophelia whomever he wants. Ophelia's father, Polonius, who enters while Laertes is leaving, also forbids Ophelia from pursuing Hamlet, as Polonius fears that Hamlet is not earnest about her. In Ophelia's next appearance, she tells Polonius that Hamlet rushed into her room with his clothing askew and a "hellish" expression on his face; he only stared at her, nodding three times without speaking to her. Based on what Ophelia told him, Polonius concludes that he was wrong to forbid Ophelia from seeing Hamlet, and that Hamlet must be mad with love for her. Polonius immediately decides to go to Claudius, the
Ophelia Settle Egypt Ophelia Settle Egypt Ophelia Settle Egypt (1903-1984) was a social worker and sociologist who conducted some of the first interviews with former slaves. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and from Columbia University School of Social Work. She was a researcher for the black sociologist Charles S. Johnson at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1928-1930 where she conducted one hundred interviews with elderly former slaves. Her interviews were part of Charles Johnson’s 1968 book “Unwritten History of Slavery: Autobiographical Accounts of Negro Ex-Slaves.” She studied medicine and sociology at Washington University on a scholarship, but had to receive