The Fair Ophelia

Singing, it has always been a blessing of the cherubs. Sadly it can be intertwined with maddness and pity. Following the murder of her father Ophelia went mad, insane with grief. She sang to herself in lyrical nonsense. Sometimes she sang quiet as a mouse, other times she sang with the roar of a lion. The king and queen were worried about her. They kept good keep of her in her state of anguish until... until she was found face down in a pond outside the castle. Although there were no witnesses at the moment it was pronounced an apparent suicide. Ophelia's grief for her father turned into the courts and especially Laertes's grief for her. Poor Hamlet was shipped off to England without giving any final goodebyes to Ophelia. The atmosphere of the entire castle has changed. Solemn grief blankets the crown of Denmark.