what is your character reluctant to tell people?
crucial muse development questions ll accepting
I think Ophelia is quiet reluctant to share her true feelings and opinions with people and that has so much to do with the environment she’s been brought up in. Polonius tells Ophelia to ‘think yourself a baby’ after she expresses her genuine confusion-she has learned how to keep to herself for it seems that any time she attempts to express anything, she is immediately shut down and shooed away, for lack of a better term.
Ophelia has found that anytime she tries to open herself up to anyone, no one seems to bother to listen to her for even a moment. So she merely keeps quiet.
Of course, she wishes nothing more than to express all her emotions that she has kept bottled up within herself-after all, one grows heavy and weary with such thoughts running through one’s mind, but she is truly afraid to due to the fact that it seems as if everyone just ignores her-
even her own father. And that is what hurts the most.
Ophelia is forced to keep her frustrations, her wants, her desires, her longings, and everything else within herself-and if someone is to ask her how she is or what it is that she is thinking (for her eyes seem to betray every single feeling and opinion he has), Ophelia grows scared and does not wish to scare the person away with an hour long speech about God knows what-
after all, she has been taught to behave like a lady so she only smiles and says that she is doing well, even though she knows that she is doing anything but.