Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Sweets to the sweets.
This is probably the saddest quote in the play. Gertrude says this at Ophelia's funeral, ironically, because Ophelia had all bad things happen to her. She never tried to hurt anyone, she wasn't involved in spying or plots, she was an innocent bystander! Yet poor Ophelia is the one that fate destined to go mad. Even in her madness she is gentle and sweet. She makes flower wreaths and sings songs, and she was merely trying to hang flowers on a bough when she fell into the brook and drowned. At least the brook carried her for awhile, a last bit of kindness to this sad girl. Yet the brook too turns on her like so many others, and kills her.
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I agree with this post because Ophelia didn't do anything, no spying or anything and yet she dies.
ReplyDelete-C.B
I agree with everything you had to say. Good job
ReplyDeleteI agree with everything that you had to say. good job
ReplyDeleteI think that it is a tragety that Ophelia had died by killing herself just the choices that hamlet had made to affect her life.
ReplyDeleteK.H
Ophelia is really such a sad character. Not only because the guy she loves kills her father, but also because she had no back bone. She always did what her father told her to do, which is good in many ways, but she couldn't think for herself.
ReplyDeletePart of the reason she went crazy is because Polonius,Laertes and Hamlet, weren't there to tell her what to do.