Ophelia

In John Everett Millais painting of Ophelia I think it looks like she was trying to kill herself, it doesn't look like she has accidentally fallen. Her facial expression looks calm and she seems to be just floating. The setting also looks peaceful and happy with all the flowers around, it doesn't look like a death scene. The skull in the flowers was a clever idea because that is the only symbol of death in the painting and it helps to put that little twist on the painting. Ophelia's death is questionable but I think in the painting it looks peaceful and more of planned out or wanted instead of an accident.

Shakespeare portrayed Ophelia as a young innocent girl falling in love with Hamlet and as the play goes on she turns into a psycho girl gone mad. The play starts out with Ophelia and Hamlet happily in love. Ophelia faces many upsets throughout the play which eventually cause her to go crazy. She's put in the predicament of choosing between her father and Hamlet, the man she loves abut is told to stay away from. After picking her father, Hamlet becomes very angry and upset and he may say some things such as he never loved Ophelia, only out of anger but this has a big effect on Ophelia. Ophelia starts to push herself away from Hamlet because of his anger. Hamlet kills Polonius and Ophelia comes to find out her so called "lover" has just killed her father. Ophelia has no one to turn to anymore her father is now dead and her and Hamlet are over. She is a young clueless girl out of love and she can't trust anyone so what is she to do? This causes her to go mad and crazy and then get these thoughts of drowning herself cause she cannot see a good reason for her to continue her life. I don't know if Gertrude watched Ophelia die but she might've because I don't think she cared much about her and it didn't matter if she lived or died. I like the way Ophelia was portrayed in the play and if I were too direct it I would keep it the same and not change much, I would keep Ophelia lonely and mad as she became.