Ophelia

My name is Ophelia young and beautiful. I am the daughter of Polonius and sister to Laertes. Even though my brother and father have warned and forbid me to pursue Hamlet I have fallen in love with him as he has portrayed his love for me. Later on my father has a change of heart about Hamlet and has set me up while my father and King Claudius hide and eavesdrop on our conversation. Hamlet comes in very angry he tells me to "get thee to a nunnery" and tells me " I say we will have no more marriages." He left me heart broken. After my fathers death madness has overcome me. I speak in riddles and rhymes. I sing as well of "mad" and bawdy songs about death and a maiden losing her virginity. I sing more songs and hand out flowers, telling everyone of their meanings. I climb into a willow tree above the river I feel the branch breaking and before it was too late the branch has fallen, and I have fallen in the brook and have drowned to my death.