Ophelia a friend whom he trusted and she lied to him. After Hamlet storms out, Ophelia makes her "O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown" soliloquy. The next time Ophelia appears is at the "Mousetrap Play", which Hamlet has arranged to try to prove that Claudius killed King Hamlet. Hamlet sits with Ophelia and makes sexually suggestive remarks; he also says that woman's love is brief. Later that night, after the play, Hamlet kills Polonius during a private meeting between Hamlet and his mother, Queen Gertrude. At Ophelia's next appearance, after her father's death, she has gone mad, due to
Ophelia Settle Egypt her lessons privately from a tutor since she was a black woman. Later, she became a social worker in southeast Washington, D.C. and was the director of their first Planned Parenthood clinic, Parklands Planned Parenthood Clinic, which was named for her in 1981, three years after she died. 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