Ophelia

Hey everyone! So, I'm totally slacking off here about this whole Ophelia thing, and I thought I'd give it a little thought. ( Read a post by Allie here, in which she mentions Ophelia in a way you've never thought of!) But here's a quick introduction to Ophelia, for all you non-Shakespeare adorers. Ophelia is one of the Charaters from Hamlet, which is a tragedy. She has a really controlling dad named Polonius, whose like the new king's right hand man. The new king offed the old king, and the old king's son, Hamlet, is Ophelia's boyfriend. Hamlet goes pretty crazy to try to reveal the new king's evil-ness to the rest of the kingdom, so he can avenge his father's death. Hamlet ends up rebuffing Ophelia's love because her daddy is spying on them, and then he kills her dad by mistake. So then she drowns. Life really sucks.

Okay, so there are a lot of different interpretations of the character Ophelia's death. Some say its suicide, some say its just her giving up, and some say that she really did just drown, and its all an accident. As I'm playing Ophelia in an upcoming performance of Hamlet, I'm going to interpret her for ya.

Ophelia and Hamlet really did love each other, and if Hamlet wasn't the prince, they probably would have gotten married. The sad part is that they never got this opportunity. Hamlet's father died and the whole world was a mess. Ophelia and Hamlet never got their chance because Hamlet didn't have time for her anymore, and her father found out and started to control the relationship. He found out about things and forced Ophelia into spying for him so he could get points with the king.

Ophelia, even though she is being controlled, genuinely loves her father, no matter what he does, and when he dies, she is thrust into a state of madness brought on by sadness. She can't express her grief, so she is driven to insanity by everything that's happening. When she speaks of the flowers, she's trying to tell how she feels for the people, and although she's crazy, her messages are clear.

Lastly, Ophelia's death. In the play it says that a tree branch she was on broke out from underneath her and she fell into the water and drowned without a struggle. She's accused of killing herself in the play by another character, and others believe she  could really do nothing about it. I think that she died out of sadness. The branch broke, and she found herself in the water. After everything she's been through, she was just done and tired of living in a world of lies and death and pain. So she gave up, because this sweet death was so much easier for her.

I'm really excited to play Ophelia. She's pretty much the coolest character ever, and its going to be fun/hard. My nails are green. I'm tired. PSATS were this morning, and then Science and then CCD >.< Good bye blog!
P.S Read Allie's blog, she's a way better writer than I.

Love from hanhan ;]