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dyingroses · 2 years

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So put on you best boys, and I’ll wear my pearls

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umi-no-onnanoko · 3 months

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#ophelia #Amleto #Hamlet #ofelia #ophelia aesthetic #ofelia aesthetic #william shakespeare #litterature #british literature #letteratura #writing #write #writer #scrivere #scrittore #scrittura

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killwinterkill · 2 years

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“I was the more deceived.”

#ophelia #hamlet #Ophelia moodboard #ophelia aesthetic #shakespeare #shakespeare aesthetic #dark academia #mine

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bittersweetsweetheart · 2 years

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#dark coquette #morbid girl summer #ophelia aesthetic

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aletterinthenameofsanity · 8 months

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Case File: [Unknown, Ophelia]

Approximate number of times [Unknown, Ophelia]:

sleeps easily: 4; sleeps troubled by nightmares: 7; sleeps alone: 15; sleeps with a girl: 3; sleeps with a boy: 0

kisses someone: 42, loves a man: 3; loves a woman: 1; falls in love: 1

lies to a friend: 5; lies to her father: 11; lies to her king: 3

contemplates death: 18; contemplates own death: 5; contemplates Hamlet and his family and how death seems to follow them like a wretched stench: 2; contemplates Signe’s death as a consequence of their relationship: 3

runs her fingers through Signe’s soft, coily hair: 32; kisses Signe’s cheek: 24; kisses Signe’s lips: 15; kisses Signe’s bare collarbone: 3; holds Signe’s hand: 17

feels strong: 4; feels strong when she is with Signe: 3; feels ashamed when she is with Hamlet: 6; feels ashamed because she feels ashamed when she is with Hamlet: 5; feels hollow: 3; feels tired of putting up with it all: 2; feels suicidal: [?]

spreads flowers with a distant smile: 1; acts is the fool: 3; is the fool: 1

falls from a branch: [?]; commits suicide: [?]

dies: 1; rises to heaven: [?]; falls to hell: [?]

How [Unknown, Ophelia] loves:

passionately, madly, coldly, roughly, unkindly, nimbly, caringly, warmly, brazenly, abruptly, softly, toughly, languidly, viciously, purely, sinfully, briefly and forever, thoroughly, without remorse, lustfully, recklessly, honestly

How [Unknown, Ophelia] lives:

Briefly- rarely mentioned in the page scrawled by a man who paints her the damsel.

Briefly- tumbling from a crib to a kitchenmaid’s bed to a watery grave beneath a tree.

Briefly- in a blaze of fire that tears the castle down.

How [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

floating to her watery grave, the waves and her skirts enveloping her in a poetic embrace

Who [Unknown, Ophelia] has loved:

her father, her prince, her kitchenmaid, her brother

The two things [Unknown, Ophelia] does not say:

“I love you.”

“I want to die.”

What [Unknown, Ophelia] is not:

fragile

How [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

cursing the heavens for the injustice of her story being overshadowed by a man's, of her life being sacrificed to feed some prince's pain

A truth [Unknown, Ophelia] said to the playwright:

“I was the more deceived.”

What the playwright decides [Unknown, Ophelia] is not important enough for:

a backstory, a faithful lover, dignity, a kiss, a say in her own future, a birthday, a mother, reciprocated love, a spine, sanity, a life

[Unknown, Ophelia]’s story is entitled:

Hamlet, filed under Tragedy.

How [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

watching her life flash before her eyes, every mistake and good choice falling into the water with her

The first time [Unknown, Ophelia] falls in love:

the world splinters also everything burns also it’s a woman also the Prince is the furthest thing from her mind also her heart sings also fuck her father also Signe’s hair runs soft and crinkly under her fingertips also is the only time

How [Unknown, Ophelia] imagines her lover:

age 5: a boy who will play hoops with her, who will join her on a quest to find buried treasure beneath the castle walls

age 10: a Prince, reckless and dark-eyed, with a smirk already curving his lips

age 15: nothing like herself- a beautiful girl, a princess like she could never be

age 20: a kitchenmaid named Signe, with dark hair and dark eyes and dark skin, curves glistening in the candlelight and smile a beacon of hope

What [Unknown, Ophelia] does on-page:

drifts from man to man, goes mad in her mind, falls in a lake, drops flowers into people's laps, passes quips to a prince in a theatre, breaks apart into a million insane fragments for a Prince's sake

What [Unknown, Ophelia] does off-page:

drifts across the underside of a lake, goes mad in her heart, falls in love, drops kisses onto Signe’s cheeks, passes a hair ribbon between hands in a darkened hallway, breaks a girl's heart with her death

The flowers [Unknown, Ophelia] gave away:

Rosemary, for remembrance

Pansies, for thoughts

Fennel, for you, and Columbines

Rue, for you to wear with a difference

Daisy, for innocence

But no Violets, for they wither’d all when her father died

The flowers [Unknown, Ophelia] gave herself:

Rue, for repentance, regret, everlasting suffering, and sorrow

How [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

[?]

The scene in which [Unknown, Ophelia] ends up immortalized:

Her descent, into madness and death, written by a playwright who writes suicide romantic rather than devastating.

A descent, then:

When Hamlet descends into madness, it is heroic. It is princely. His suicide by sword- for what else is it, truly- is considered truly regal.

When Ophelia descends into madness, it is tragic. It is delicate. She is the flower wilted, the rose with its thorns cut. She is the aftermath, the prequel, the death to further a plot.

[Unknown, Ophelia]’s name becomes:

an insult, a title for a lover scorned, a derisive nickname, a contemptuous glare, a metaphor for madness

a compliment, an appraising glance, a name for a lover true, a loving pet name, a simile for sympathy

What happens to [Unknown, Ophelia] after the funeral:

The story does not say.

How a kitchenmaid grieves:

Unnoticed, in the midst of death after death. First her lover, then the Queen and the Regent and the Prince. In a kingdom enveloped by grief, a kitchen maid's tears go unnoticed.

Location of a princess’s hair ribbon:

Tucked under a kitchenmaid’s skirts.

How [Unknown, Ophelia] dies:

Loved.

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queenixs · 2 years

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𝛳𝜌𝘩𝜀𝑙𝜄𝛼

𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡?… 𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑟?… 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑢𝑡𝑦 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚 ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑤𝑑… 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒.

#ophelia #william shakespeare #shakespeare #william shakespeare quotes #ophelia moodboard #ophelia aesthetic #shakespeare aesthetic #aesthetic moodboard #moodboard #aesthetic #aesthetically pleasing

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graysparrow · 2 years

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Moody & Ethereal Inspired Bridal Shoot | via Want That Wedding UK

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daydreaming-effy · 1 year

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#Ophelia #ophelia aesthetic #dark academia #Shakespeare

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happyheidi · 2 years

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‘Opawlia’ by Susan Herbert (1945 - 2004)

#hahah oh opawlia <3 #oh my GOD I love this!!#it’s purfection!#cottagecore #susan herbert #cats #animals #art #funny #ophelia #nature #naturecore #light academia aesthetic #flowers #flowercore

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thensson · 3 months

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I've grown older. I'm still so young.

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