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 Gordon Bell Ophelia Gordon Bell Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell (1915–1975), known as Ophelia, was an English sculptor, known for her several commissions for the United Kingdom's Atomic Energy Authority. She was born in London on 1 July 1915, the daughter of the painter Winifred Gordon Bell, (née Billinge; full name Winifred Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell) and F Lawrence Bell, and was raised in the St John's Wood area. In 1938, her address was listed as 13 Greville Place, London NW6. She studied at Regent Street Polytechnic in the 1930s and exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine