By reading Hamlet, I found it is really interesting that Ophelia has a lot of features that similar with traditional Chinese women. She grows up in a serious family. Her father is the minister, and she also has a brother who is like their father. She listens to her father and brother almost for everything.
In ancient times, Chinese women are basically stay in their rooms, learning to be gentlewomen until they get married. Of course, they don't know who they are going to marry before the day, because the most important thing is decided by parents, and free love is forbidden. As well as other important things.
Ophelia lived also in ancient western country that the idea of liberty is just started. She want to pursue her love, but eventually she listened to her father and brother. But in China, the situation is more serious. A girl must obey anything her parents tell her otherwise it will be a shame or people will blame them. The public view changes in around recent a hundred years. During the changing period, I think there are many stories happened like the one happened in Ophelia. They want to live their own lives and to get what they want like love or work, or some of them want to go to school, but parents may reject their requests. So, some of them will choose to try, of course maybe someone failed, someone succeed (which triggered followers on a large scale; some of them may like Ophelia, still listen to their parents' opinion, and never decide anything by themselves.
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