Ophelia
by Lutz Roland Lehn
Title
Ophelia
Artist
Lutz Roland Lehn
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting
Description
Ophelia in Shakepeare's drama "Hamlet" is a young, inexperienced and very beautiful woman. Hamlet loves her and it can be assumed that she returns this love. However, her father (Polonius) and brother (Laertes) give her "orders" to reject Hamlet. She complies without argument, as was customary for women at the time. She even spies on Hamlet as soon as they ask her to. She is largely helpless at the mercy of her father and brother and must do what they "order" her to do. She has hardly any rights of her own. Later in the play, after Hamlet's rejections and after her father's death, Ophelia becomes insane. In her madness, she makes various sexual innuendos that indicate repressed instincts. She eventually commits suicide by drowning herself in a river.
Inspired by the great works of Friedrich Heyser, John Everett Millais and Eugène Delacroix this picture was created. I hope you like it.
Surely Ophelia as a modern self-confident woman in this day and age would not have gone mad and ended her life in this way, she would have put these power-mad men in their place and enforced their rights.
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September 23rd, 2021
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