Ophelia Vs Reality In Hamlet Essay

Meanwhile Ophelia comes in and starts to sing. Ophelia is detached from reality because after her father’s death she has gone insane. She tells the Queen that [Polonius] is dead and gone/he is dead and gone/ at his head a grass-green turf/ at his heels a stone” (4.5.29-32). This represents disease imagery because now the innocent Ophelia is detached from reality and is in her own world. This displays how Denmark is a cursed place and how soon no one will be left because of the evil. Unfortunately, all the evil and revenge has come to an end. When Hamlet and Laertes had there fencing match all but one person survived which was Horatio. Ophelia drowned, Queen Gertrude died because she drank the poison, Hamlet killed Claudius, and Laertes and