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Ophelia

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Ophelia, in astronomy, one of the natural satellites, or moons, of Uranus Uranus (yrā`nəs, y
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Ophelia
goes mad after father’s death. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet]
See : Madness

Ophelia
driven insane by Hamlet’s actions, she drowns herself. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Hamlet]
See : Suicide

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He had taken her with him on a tour to Vermont, and had persuaded his cousin, Miss Ophelia St.
Lastly, Ophelia was a prey to such slow musical madness, that when, in course of time, she had taken off her white muslin scarf, folded it up, and buried it, a sulky man who had been long cooling his impatient nose against an iron bar in the front row of the gallery, growled, "Now the baby's put to bed let's have supper
Is it very deep, so that, as some critics hold, when Ophelia fails him he suffers another incurable wound, or is it a very secondary thing as compared with his other interests?
 
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