Who is Ophelia?

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Lydia55y · 22/03/2019 15:14

Ophelia keeps making it's way back onto my list but i'm not sure if i'm brave enough to use it. What sort of name is this to you?

I typically like unusual yet old fashioned/traditional pretty names, generally starting with vowels.

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GinaCarbonara · 22/03/2019 17:07

I know an Ophelia. She's a very warm, kind woman who is a doctor. She's nice to everyone

OutwithMyRemit · 22/03/2019 17:04

The daughter of people who want everyone to know how well educated and clever they are.

Also, she drowned.

woodcutbirds · 22/03/2019 15:32

I knew one. Very beautiful, scatty and quite mad. Not a happy girl, just like her namesake. I'd avoid it. Loads of gorgeous Shakespearean names with happier connotations: Rosalind, Beatrice, Portia, even Juliet was a very strongminded and passionate girl.

daisypond · 22/03/2019 15:30

I’d only think of the Shakespeare character -drowned herself in the river after being messed around by a man.

GeorgeTheBleeder · 22/03/2019 15:25

She has a trust fund.

She's studying at the Slade.

She wears vintage silk camisoles and very big boots to obscure, difficult to get to festivals.

And marries a man she meets at a mindfulness event in a yurt in South America. He inherits a castle on the west coast of Ireland and they become famous collectors and curators of art.

She donates her own inheritance to a charity supporting mindfulness retreats in war zones.

Nowthenforever2019 · 22/03/2019 15:22

I love the name, cos I love The Band song! But could never seriously consider it. I have to have a name I wouldn't be embarrassed to shout out in the park.

MeowthThatsRight · 22/03/2019 15:19

There was an Ophelia in my year at school. She got an awful lot of ‘I’ll feel ya tits/ arse’ etc at secondary.

Nesssie · 22/03/2019 15:19

I wouldn't necessarily relate it to the Shakespeare character but it does sound pretentious to me.

CaptainMyCaptain · 22/03/2019 15:17

She's a tragic character in Shakespeare's Hamlets. As said above, she committed suicide.

LeekMunchingSheepShagger · 22/03/2019 15:16

In love with Hamlet, goes mad, kills herself. In summary.

TheShiteRunner · 22/03/2019 15:15

She committed suicide in a pool. Sorry.

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