During the course of the novel Ophelia is transformed, just as the Republican Party (three years later) proclaimed that the North must transform itself and stand up for its antislavery principles.
在小说的情节裡，奥菲利亚最终被转变了，就像美国共和党（在三年后）宣布北方必须改变自己，并捍卫其反奴隶制度的原则一样。