Ofelia is a timeless story; a story of love, rebellion and rebirth in death. The twenty-year old daughter of Polonius, the chamberlain, she stands out for her not only inner sparkling beauty. In love with Prince Hamlet, she idealizes him and their very tender love story, something wonderful and fatal in which to take shelter. But soon the events deteriorate: Claudio, at the head of a court loyal to him, poisons the king, his brother, killing him; he seduces and then marries his wife, Gertrude, and takes his place on the throne. The pain of the mourning and the understandable state of confusion bring Prince Hamlet on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Ofelia is gradually rejected, marginalized and abandoned. The girl is in deep shock: because of the separation from her beloved, the moral misery and pettiness of the “good society” and the people that surround her. She decides to put an end to her torment and she rebels to her fate. First she tries to revive the prince’s consciousness, not succeeding; then she spurs the courtiers to rebellion; finally, in her solitary and heroic impulse, she goes into the room of the new King, to take justice into her own hands; but Claudio, the tyrant, prevails. Ofelia, alone, defeated and disillusioned, chooses to die to not abjure her ideals: she goes into the lake that has accompanied the few happy moments of her short life, and she drowns herself. Simultaneously the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears on the tower of the castle revealing that he was poisoned by his brother and asks for revenge.
Ophelia, basically ends right where Shakespeare’s Hamlet begins…