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Genre: Education
Date of upload: May 20, 2022 ^^
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Iām a senior in HS and every year the seniors have to choose a famous painting to recreate on a ceiling tile, and I chose Ophelia. The amount of detail on this painting is remarkable, and Iāve spent hours staring at it and I still find new hidden details! This is definitely my favorite painting so Iām glad I found this video talking about itās history, so thank you!
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OPHELIA
Among bed of lilies,
She's so beautiful and pale.
But her heart was broken,
Let the painting tell the tale.
A soul that is so rested,
Her lilies by her side,
The banks around so sodden,
With gifts of nature's pride.
Keep breathing dear Ophelia,
With auburn hair that flows
Amidst the tepid water,
Heartbeat, hand and rose. š¹
How could one so beautiful,
And with heart so true,
Be lost among the lilies?
Let the picture paint the hue.
Ā© SIRIUS
The poem is very old. It was inspired by the painting.
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I have always been disgusted by how most traditional art romanticizes and beautifies Ophelia's death. Her death was cruel and unjust (at least this is what I felt after reading the play) and I thought these paintings should paint the real, ugly death of women drowning in polluted rivers, instead of romanticizing being oppressed and women driven to suicide.
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Just want to point out, Ophelia was not sent away by Hamlet because of impurity...
Ophelia's father, Polonius, commanded her to give back all Hamlet's love letters and to basically accuse him of playing her. Even Ophelia's brother, Laertes, told her not to trust him.
Hamlet truly loved her though, so when she returns his letters and is cold to him, he is devastated.
He sarcastically agrees that HE must be the villain and that she should "get thee to a nunnery" where she would be safe from such men.
Ophelia, tormented by her choice, watches as Hamlet starts to behave erradically (because of the murder of his father by his uncle) and she believes he has gone mad because she broke his heart. Then in a cruel twist of fate, Hamlet accidentally kills her father. Ophelia could no longer cope and descends into madness - she becomes almost childlike. In her whimsy of collecting flowers, she falls into the river and drowns.
Hamlet is one of my favorite Shakespearean plays and I just wanted to defend my main man Ham <3
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@annalomax1843
1 year ago
I think it's important to note the pain that Rossetti caused her as a lover through countless infidelities, as well as the fact that after she died he buried poems with her, and then dug up her grave a few years later to get them back out. He treated her very badly, and this treatment was one of, if not the main, cause of her laudanum overdose.
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