What does Elaine Showalter argue about gender in terms of representations of the character of Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

• A. Ophelia’s madness represents the social oppression of women.
• B. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.
• C. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.
• D. All of the above answers are correct.