Friday, January 30, 2009

“Sweets to the sweet.”

This was said by Gertrude at Ophelia’s funeral. What she meant by it was that good things should happen to good people, this is how she felt toward Ophelia. She felt that she was dealt a bad situation even though she was such a sweet girl. This is a nice idea that good things happen to good people but sadly it is not always true. Ophelia is one of Shakespeare’s most tragic characters; because she dies and really she did nothing wrong the whole play, except maybe lie to Hamlet (see the Ophelia and Hamlet love post for more on that). This is such a sweet and yet sad quote, because of the nice idea behind it, but the sadness is where the quote is placed in the play.

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