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| | On Shakespeare's Ophelia |
 | | The title of the book, Reviving Ophelia, is a reference to the character of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet; she is used as a symbol for what the author, Mary Pipher, says happens to young women. |
 | | Siegel is the critic who understood Ophelia truly, and he showed--looking with scrupulous and loving exactitude at the text--that the Danish girl is not a passive victim--in fact, she has active contempt, shown clearly through the lines Shakespeare has her say, and also through what she doesn’t say. |
 | | Young women dislike themselves not because demands are made on them, or the approval of others is hard to get, but because the way they see the world and people is not fair, not deep or kind enough, and has too much contempt with it. |
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