#of ophelia handing all of them those horribly resonant and symbolic flowers

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i like to believe that ophelia's madness gave her a kind of meta knowledge of the plot— that she saw the tragic ending coming, knew that hamlet's indecision would be his hamartia, that she realised gertrude and claudius were both poisoned with corruption from the beginning and instead of the customary funeral goers laying flowers at a grave, it was Ophelia— mad, at death's door, about to die in less than 2 scenes— who handed flowers to the king, queen and protagonist as if the dead girl was mourning the living

#hamlet #shakespeare #i just love that scene so so much #of ophelia handing all of them those horribly resonant and symbolic flowers #highlighting and chiding them for their flaws #and her death scene is so peaceful and lovely #in that flowery lake- it's such a contrast to the violence in the end of act 5 #god what an amazing character #it's like she went: i know what's coming and i'm sorry #but i'm going to remove myself from the narrative and die peacefully thank you very much #will i ever shut up about hamlet? the answer is no #theatre tag #aisha.txt #prev. @annalightwood #hamlet* #shakespeare* #theories* #500* #1000* #2000* #5000* #10000*