Ophelia: A wise, strong minded girl and Hamlet's love interest. She becomes the wife of Hamlet, though in secret and bears his child, which she names Hamlet.
“Test me Hamlet! I would not fail you.”
“Let him measure his affection in numbers. What he calls love deserves not the name!”
“Pensées. That's for your thoughts.”
“But over time I realized that the court of Elsinore was a lovely garden where serpents hid in the grass.”
Ophelia: (Lia); Hamlet's girlfriend.
“Ah, words! Hamlet revels in them! He loves to tumble words over themselves, upending their meaning and playing on their sounds. When he speaks, I must listen with my understanding tipped at an angle that would make most others dizzy! 'Tis true--but only for the placing of one letter, do meanings slant and distort and become other--trust becomes tryst; friend, fiend--while one word's position among its fellows can make some sentence another. Hamlet hath shown me that a word is as good as a kiss, when, like a kiss, one knows how to bestow it.”
“But know you this, Anne, whatever I do NOT do with Hamlet I do NOT not do because I am ordered against doing it; but because I do choose not to do it.”
“Talk not to me of difficulty, good sir, until you have lived but one day as a woman.”
Ophelia: Noblewoman of Denmark, daughter of Polonius, lover of Hamlet. Originally played by Janet Watts.
Ophelia: (commonly referred to as Cocoa throughout the novel) the female protagonist of the story, she is a young headstrong woman who grew up in Willow Springs with her grandmother Abigail and great aunt Miranda but is now trying to make a life for herself in New York. She is also known as "Baby Girl," the pet name Abigail and Miranda have for her.
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