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

A. Feminist critics need to re-appropriate Ophelia for their own purposes.

B. All of the above answers are correct.

C. Ophelias madness represents the social oppression of women.

D. It is nearly impossible to represent women as anything other than mad in patriarchal discourses.

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