Who is she? Who are you? I think I knew you too well in the past to able to know you in the present. Have you changed? Is she different? I suppose she is... I want to rediscover you.
So let's start with the basics...
Ophelia, the teenager that does not have a mother, the one that is used again and again and again by her father. But she was brought up well, I mean, she is a good girl. She means no harm. Oh, and she loves him... But she can't love him fully because society is out to get her.
Who is she really? The character that Shakespeare decided to mistreat? She is the heroine, the female lover which never gets a chance to perform her role. Hamlet and the plot are too busy on their own problems to give her a shot, a shot at being a lead female role. I mean, Shakespeare just decides to isolate her, to make her so incredibly locked up, so alone. With noone to turn to. How could he do that? She just represents the person that society's eaten up, gobbled. She's taken over by them.
It's just terrifying, you know? To be in that place... that place in the dark where noone hears you scream. The world is just too occupied to take notice. And she is so scared and frightened. She fulfills her role, what she is supposed to do.
She's a mermaid. So beautiful. I think he made her so perfect so that the fall could be bigger. Oh, but she is small. And fragile. How could she not be? When life itself has took care of beating her up.
OK, so let's say this is a fresh start on you.
Act 2 Scene 1 - Description of Hamlet's madness
What should I be aware of? She has just, in that exact moment, come from seeing Hamlet appearing to be completely mad. In a good bye sort of way... He stares at her, holds her, stares some more. And all this in a appauling figure, completely unbuttoned and untied and looking like there is something way down deep which is stirring.
How could she feel about this, I mean? Besides being completely surprised, nervous, boggled, out of breath, frightened, worried. This is the man she loves, in front of her, appearing to be completely mad and acting in an extremely creepy way. She's gone mad, she'd think, what happened? My love has gone mad. Oh my god. I don't know what is going on. She is too nervous to even think straight. The words just come out of her mouth as she tries to remember what just happened. Is it me? Was it my fault? Is it because he is in love with me?
Let me try it out. Now. For the first time like this. Ohhhhh, let's goooooooo
Oh no, I can't. Not now. I'm going to learn my lines first. Then I'll try it.
That's it for the first one. Let's hope I keep finding stuff out. I don't think I'm already comfortable to talk to her directly. I need to settle more, discover how she's changed, and then I'll do.
See you tomorrow
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