Ophelia By: Amber Edmunds

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There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give and grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up: Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes; As on incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element: but long it could be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death. - Queen Gertrude This picture demonstrates the story of how Ophelia died/killed herself. Home

Drown’d, drown’d. - Queen Gertrude This picture represents how Ophelia dies. She drowned. Home

You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot So inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of It: I loved you not. - Hamlet This picture represents the anger Hamlet portrayed toward Ophelia after she broke up with him. Home

I shall obey, my lord. - Ophelia This picture represent how Ophelia’s heart was broken after her dad told her to break up with Hamlet. Home

Lay her I’ the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. - Laertes This represents the grave of Ophelia and what they buried her in. Home

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone. -Ophelia This picture represents when Ophelia went crazy after Hamlet killed her father, Polonius. Home

There‘s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, Love, remember: and there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. - Ophelia These flowers represent the symbols for how Ophelia felt. She used these flowers to resemble her thoughts. Home

O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted! -Ophelia This picture represents when Hamlet came into Ophelia’s room after she broke up with him and scared Ophelia. Everyone thought Hamlet was going crazy. Home

Sweets to the sweet: farewell! I hop’d thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have deck’d, sweet maid, And not have strew’d thy grave. - Queen Gertrude This picture represents when the queen spread flowers on Ophelia’s grave, as she wished she would have became Hamlets bride. She would have rather spread the flowers on her bridal bed rather than her grave. Home

I lov’d Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not, with all their quantity of love, Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? - Hamlet This picture represents Hamlet’s true love for Ophelia. After he went crazy and cursed Ophelia out, he knew he didn’t mean all the things he said. Hamlet loved Ophelia. Home

Ophelia My eyes are stones you told me truth but by dawn beauty had fallen from sight these stones are in league with gravity and green water gurgles over fathoms deep where I lie about the truth I lie in weeds washed back and forth tangled, knotted, decaying and those are stones that once were pearls - Author Unknown Home

Leaves are falling To cover the maiden Whose feet quickly traverse The wilderness The catch in her hair Flowing behind her like garland In the cool wind And, she's Ophelia as she Splashes into the winter river And floats downstream Blue lips and purple rimmed eyes She's a picture of icy beauty As her dress drags her down to the bottom Where she waits A century later To be thawed in a Spring That never comes Ophelia

Final Reflections The thing that surprised me about my thinking in this unit was that Hamlet killed Polonius. The writing in this unit was relevant to my life because there’s many things our parents tell us to do, but we don’t obey them. The piece I’m most proud of is my quotes because they are what makes my project entertaining. If Ophelia was standing right in front of me, I would try to talk her out of killing herself, and try to help her through her father’s death. I will hold onto the different events that took place in this book and learn from the bad mistakes and take advice from the good things.