Innocence And Deception Of Ophelia In Shakespeare's Hamlet

My dear Ophelia was a violet living among the bed of thorns. An image of innocence and purity in among the disease, death and deceit that runs rampant throughout the court of Denmark. For her to have downed among the weeping willows, no to have downed herself, to escape the woes that littered her mortal coil. Without a man to guide her no wonder she drifted astray, condemned to hell for the abomination of her death. Hamlet without a doubt would have set he on this damned path. His fruitless courtship of Ophelia, using his silver tongue to the pluck at her heart strings. She gave her heart away as if it was a toy, without significance or a second thought. To whom, not but the Prince whom she could never have a future with. A love expressed in haste that has consequently informed the fate. A father slaughtered at the hands of one’s beloved. Two life senselessly waste the whim of one man. What a wave of woe one must endure to lose one’s father and love with one damned action. Made even more bitter in the deception of it all. Upon my arrival she already had one foot in the grave. Madness if I had ever seen it, for grief is like a torrent therefore without support no wonder she was consumed and dragged to her depths.

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Take the deception of the King and turn it on him. if I was to reveal the depth of his deceit in front of the whole court and point out all of the proceeding events. They court will see his plan to kill Hamlet using me as a puppet. Even if the court wouldn’t believe me the proof would be in the chalice. It would without a doubt show his true intentions, if he drunk from the cup he would be condemned to the same fate as poor Ophelia and if not there would be irrefutable evidence of his guilt in the construction of Hamlet’s proposed death. From the puppet to the