Ophelias Questionable Death

It was a dark gloomy day when Ophelia was buried. It was also very bizarre. The first bizarre moment was when the priest would not perform a ceremonial burial for Ophelia because of her questionable death. Then out of no where Laertes Ophelia's brother jumps in the grave and picks up the dead body of Ophelia. As Laertes holds his sister in his hands he demands to the priest that he gives her a ceremonial burial. Then, the second bizarre moment was when Hamlet leaps into the grave, announcing that he will die with Ophelia. As all this is happening it makes you wonder if Ophelia Killed herself, or did someone that was at her funeral kill her. Since no one had any of these answers I decided to find them out on my own.

The first thing that I needed to do was find out who was close to Ophelia and ask them some questions about who they thought might have killed her. The only person that was left in her family was her brother Laertes. Her father had been murdered some time ago by Hamlet, but no one could ever prove that he was the murder. So that raised the question did Hamlet kill Ophelia and make it look like a suicide? This very well could have happened, but we needed to keep a open mind if we were going to find the real murderer.

The person I wanted to talk to first was her brother Laertes. Since Laertes was around Ophelia almost everyday, he had to of seen some act of madness by Ophelia before her death. So I decided to go to Laertes palace and ask him what he thought of his sisters death. At first Laertes was very angry and did not want to talk to me. But after I told him that I was only here to find out who killed his sister he began to calm down. After he felt comfortable with me, I asked him who he thought might have killed Ophelia and why. He told me that he thought it was a suicide, and that she killed herself because of her fathers death. I then proceeded to ask him if he thought Hamlet killed his father. He then became very angry again and told me to never talk about his father around him. Laertes then just walked off without saying a word. I was beginning to think everyone in the kingdom was becoming mad.

As Laertes was walking off a voice appeared screaming, but I could not make out what they were saying. I waited until Laertes was out of the room to ask the voice to speak again but there was no reply. I now started to wonder if I was becoming mad.

Since I got nowhere with Laertes I decided that I would next ask Hamlet what he thought of Ophelia's death. As I was making my way to Hamlets palace the voice appeared again, and then I saw someone moving up ahead of me. I ran to this person, but when I got there I noticed it was a ghost. As I kept looking at the ghost I realized that it was Ophelia. I asked the ghost to speak but there was no reply. Then all of a sudden it vanished. I started to become very frightened, and wondered if there was something wrong with me. I decided that I had had enough for one night and would question Hamlet in the morning.

I was woken up the next morning by screams coming from the town. I walked outside to see what all the madness was about. Then I noticed that people were running to the Kings palace. I wondered what this was all about so I made my way up to where everyone was standing and asked a fellow friend of mine what was wrong. He then looked at me with this mad look in his eyes and said have you not heard that the King, Queen, Hamlet, and Laertes are all dead. I was immediately tooken by this and became very outraged. I now had no one to question about Ophelia's death.  Since there was no way I could proceed with my investigation I decided that I would walk the platform of the castle to clear my mind. As I was walking I heard a noise that sounded like a cry. So I followed the noise to a room that was just right around the corner. As I approached the room I noticed that it was Ophelia's ghost that was crying. I went up to the ghost very carefully and asked the ghost what was wrong. The ghost did not reply. I then asked the ghost one more time what was wrong, but with a more stern voice this time. Then out of nowhere the ghost turned around and started to sing a song. In her song she talked about the day she died. She sang about how no one in her life loved her anymore, and she also talked about the death of her father. Then the ghost spoke of her love for Hamlet and how she wanted to be with him for the rest of her life. Then the last part of her song she said "It was a cold and gloomy day when I decided to take my life away".  Then after the ghost sang her song she just vanished never to be seen again.

I was stunned by what I just witnessed. I was also very sad as well. I was sad because a beautiful person took her life because of the madness from others. Ophelia must have really felt neglected and unwanted by the ones who loved her the most, for her to take her own life. I also decided that I would not talk of this day ever to anyone. I decided this because I was positive that if I told people of the actions I just witnessed they would think that I was becoming mad myself.