Word: ophelias
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Some might also find fault with The River as an ideological statement. The play found evocative power in its regular mentions of “Ophelia, who died because she lacked a vocabulary” and of Virginia Woolf’s suicide. Those references, however, combined with the play’s final image—a woman, satiated by a man, privately reveling in her own unclothed body—to present a worldview that would have seemed a bit naive even before midcentury articulations of feminism, and which verges on being downright retrograde...
...award] is a victory for people who believe in global equity,” said PIH president Ophelia Dahl, one of Kim’s close colleagues...
Gilligan inspired an increasing literature on the problems of adolescent girls, including Reviving Ophelia, a best-selling book about troubled teenage girls written by a clinical psychologist...
...specter lurks throughout Shimoda, and you can sense her troubled soul best at Anchokuro, the restaurant she ran after Harris left for America, and at Hofukuji, where her bones lay in repose. The consul gone and reconciliation with her former lover Tsurumatsu failed, Okichi drowned herself like an Asian Ophelia in a river near Shimoda in 1892. "She persevered for Japan," said bus driver Kaoru Okabe. "But it must have been tough...
...JAPAN'S OPHELIA If you are curious about the legend of Okichi, this site, put out by Japan-based academic Kathleen Kitao, discerns fact from fiction and gives a web view of all the spots dedicated to Shimoda's most famous daughter, including where to find her grave...