How to express oneself in the language? The case of mad Ophelia

Ophelia in the discourse of humanities is mostly presented as an object and mentally inferior
to the protagonist of the drama — Hamlet. The feminist critics noticed that the heroine
could be regarded as a symbol of femininity and actually a symbol of the inability
to fully express its subjectivity due to the domination of male logos. In my article, I would like to briefly introduce the form of Ophelia’s reception and to analyze the language of
the heroine by using methodological tools of linguistics ( Jakobson — poetic function
of language, aphasia as a language disorder). To introduce a broader perspective of my
research I will also refer to cultural figure of an outsider.