What I really think of Ophelia’s
death in the play Hamlet.
I think that the Queen, Gertrude,
had went with poor miss Ophelia to the lake, and while Ophelia was in the tree
Gertrude had decided to break the branch she was sitting on or that she just
started throwing rocks at Ophelia. The reasoning behind this theory of Gertrude
being the killing factor of Ophelia is because the day before Gertrude had saw
Ophelia. At this time Ophelia was not in her best state, due to her father’s
recent death, and Gertrude was just fed up with what Ophelia was doing. So this
gives the Queen a motive, but how did she get away with it? It is because she
was the only one around that she had gotten away with it. Due to Ophelia’s
state it seems like a plausible thing that she would so. Since Gertrude had
been the only witness she decided what to tell everyone what had happened at
the lake that afternoon. So Gertrude tried to cover her death up with a
suicide. Even Ophelia’s brother, Laertes, had thought that his poor sister
killed herself, but we know the truth of what had happened at the lake don’t we...
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