#hamlet*

i like to believe that ophelia's madness gave her a kind of meta knowledge of the plot— that she saw the tragic ending coming, knew that hamlet's indecision would be his hamartia, that she realised gertrude and claudius were both poisoned with corruption from the beginning and instead of the customary funeral goers laying flowers at a grave, it was Ophelia— mad, at death's door, about to die in less than 2 scenes— who handed flowers to the king, queen and protagonist as if the dead girl was mourning the living

sure indecision was hamlet's hamartia and it led to his downfall etc. but also?? if the ghost of my father came to me in the middle of the night and told me to commit some casual regicide, i may also be a tad skeptical