OPHELIA submerging VERYBesTRENDINGportrait HAMLET

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Of course, I know that Ophelia is said to have fallen from a tree limb into the water, but that was only to take some of the guilt away from her, i.e., by making her suicide partly accidental, coupled with a level of insanity that rejected self-preservation without a conscious choice of self-destruction. Contrast this with Lady MacBeth, who could also claim insanity but had no precipitating accident - and Lady MacBeth DID make a conscious choice of self-destruction, her final villainous act. Even that had to be done off-stage.

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Shakespeare's Ophelia is a beautiful red-haired Woman in a long green dress ; she is in the forest and she is lying underwater beneath the surface of a river - an illustration in ink style of Erwin Stolz