Yesterday, 03:46 AM
"Hamlet didn’t have a second girlfriend." Right,, but not relevant, coz Hamlet's only _very_ indirectly involved here anyway.
"Ophelia died of grief because she lost hamlet and her father." She drowned herself (at least partly but significantly) because she was _abandoned_ by Hamlet - "Go to a nunnery".
Ophelia is supposed to be symbolic here not literal. How I must have screwed up if that wasn't obvious.
"It’s ok to use Ophelia as a throwaway reference in the context" It wasn't intended as a 'throw away' but as a symbolic reference to the man's statement being a lie.
Maybe you just don't like the poem, which is OK - tastes differ. but I'm not getting any other signals from you that I can really use to improve it if it needs improving. Lets' leave it at that and see what anyone else thinks.
"Ophelia died of grief because she lost hamlet and her father." She drowned herself (at least partly but significantly) because she was _abandoned_ by Hamlet - "Go to a nunnery".
Ophelia is supposed to be symbolic here not literal. How I must have screwed up if that wasn't obvious.
"It’s ok to use Ophelia as a throwaway reference in the context" It wasn't intended as a 'throw away' but as a symbolic reference to the man's statement being a lie.
Maybe you just don't like the poem, which is OK - tastes differ. but I'm not getting any other signals from you that I can really use to improve it if it needs improving. Lets' leave it at that and see what anyone else thinks.