Ophelia Theory

Ophelia is everywhere.

I’m BN Harrison, author of “The Unified Theory of Ophelia”. Want to play a game? The rules are simple.

Does your book / movie / poem / painting / album cover / cartoon contain…

a vulnerable adolescent girl or young woman/femme
who has exploitative relationships with older, more powerful people
whose mental health is crumbling dangerously
who dies, eventually, in a manner associated with water, drowning, and/or flowers?

If you answered yes to most or all of those questions, then congratulations: you may have an Ophelia narrative on your hands!

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