When adolescence takes possession of daughters, mothers are thrown into alien territory.
Daily life swerves in unpredictable directions.
Still, we seldom tell the mother side of the Ophelia saga. An unspoken heritage pressures mothers to remain silent, to fade into the dark once their daughters stand on the threshold of womanhood. In Hamlet, Ophelia's mother plays no part. The tradition persists. In our youth obsessed culture, a bitter-sweet light focuses on daughters, while we remain in their shadow.