Lady of Shalott and Ophelia

Lady of Shalott was a poem by Alfred Tennyson. In the poem, he puts emphasis on how we understand the poem because he wants us to read it and try to understand it stanza by stanza. Lady of Shalott is cursed and so she can not look directly out the window and instead looking in a mirror that reflects the busy Camelot road. Sir Lancelot passes by and he is described as "bold."When the Lady of Shalott sees Lancelot she leaves her town on a boat in attempt to find him. Instead, she floats down the river to Camelot but dies before she gets there. Lancelot sees her and thinks she's lovely. Ophelia is a character in Shakespeare. Ophelia is described as a damsel in distress because she loves Hamlet, but he does not love her back. Hamlet ends up killing Ophelia's father, Polonius, and devastates Ophelia. Ophelia ends up climbing into a willow tree when the branch breaks and she falls into the brook and dies. Many think that this was an act of suicide. After Ophelia's funeral scene, she is not mentioned again in Shakespeare's Hamlet.