To My Dearest Ophelia,
My heart, my soul, my everything? Why dost thou ignore me? Dost thou not know how my love and passion burns for you? I must then ask thee, my dearest, why you have turned from thee. Ere, you were always there at thy demand, my dear. But now, my sweet Ophelia, you have gone! Thy father hath made you, my darling Ophelia, turn from me, thy Hamlet! How could such blasphemy have occurred!
Hark, Ophelia, hark. Hear my words. Thou are more lovely and desirable than any girl I have laid eyes on. Mark, I haved loved you more than anyone has every loved. Do not let thy father changed that. Do not let him take hence what is true and pure. For our love, Ophelia, is purer than a newborn child. You must know of that, my sweet.
I am now appearing mad, my Ophelia. Having thou taken from me has thus changed me. Everywhere, methinks I see thee. I hear thy voice when thou are nowhere to be found. Is that normal, my sweet? Is that why thou have left me, your Hamlet? For I cannot make sense of why thou has. Our love was my everything, and now it has been taken away. I do not know how much more pain I can handle.
I pray thee Ophelia, I beg. Please come back to me. I pray, I pray, I pray. How could thou leave me in such a time? How could thou reject our love, our pure love? And so I pray, Ophelia, that thou will come back to me? Marry thou could do so. We could run away together, thou and I, Ophelia. Where no pernicious man can hurt our love. Marry thou could do so, could you not, my love?
Yours Forever,
Hamlet
7 comments:
I really liked that you took on the challenge of writing in Shakespearean language! It made this letter seem so much more believable. Hamlet's desperateness was clearly portrayed in your writing! It was easy to read, considering how I dread reading things written in Shakespeare! Hamlet's love for Ophelia is greatly shown and by reading this you just wish Ophelia would write back and come back to Hamlet for the sake of their love!
Yea, that was really good. I like how you used Shakespearean language and a vocab word. It made it seem a lot more realistic than everyone else who was using texting language. I think Polonius would have understood you a lot better. Anyway it really go the message across and would have put Polonius right where Hamlet would have wanted him.
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I really enjoyed how you wrote the entire entry in skakerspearean language. It reminded me as if i was actually reading straight from the novel. Also it was great how it shows Hamlets desent into madness, and if it is true, or just an act. It also goes into the idea on how Polonius believes Hamlet is mad from love.
Julianna I love the way you write. I like the way you made his seem depressed and use the idea that he was mad without her love in the letter. It sounded like a sad love song. It flowed nice and it was written in Shakespeare which was great. You actually made shakespearean writing make sense to me. I think on the next writting my Shakespearean writing will actually sound like Shakespearean instead of my failed attempt on this post. Really nice job! :)
Juliana** sorry!
Juliana, this is really beautiful. Your incorporation of Shakespearean language was great! It really felt like this could have been a piece of the actual text. I feel like you embodied the character of Hamlet perfectly! Nice job!
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