Hamlet
Kitty Lynn Rose for Orphelia
Polonius’s daughter, a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love. Ophelia is a sweet and innocent young girl, who obeys her father and her brother, Laertes. Dependent on men to tell her how to behave, she gives in to Polonius’s schemes to spy on Hamlet. Even in her lapse into madness and death, she remains maidenly, singing songs about flowers and finally drowning in the river amid the flower garlands she had gathered.
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But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
In few, Ophelia, Do not believe his vows.
Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s eye, tongue, sword, Th’ expectation and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mold of form, Th’ observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
