Hamlet Obra Completa Access
Hamlet tells her, “Get thee to a nunnery” —which in Elizabethan slang meant both a convent and a brothel. He is simultaneously telling her to preserve her virginity and calling her a whore. He is projecting his mother’s betrayal (Gertrude’s "incestuous" marriage) onto the innocent Ophelia.
And we are all, still, finding only silence for an answer. “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” hamlet obra completa
Hamlet now has proof. The Ghost was honest. Claudius is guilty. The sword should fall immediately. Instead, Hamlet finds Claudius praying. He draws his sword. He raises it. And then... he stops. Hamlet tells her, “Get thee to a nunnery”
He asks Horatio to “report me and my cause aright to the unsatisfied.” He knows that his story will be twisted. He knows he will be remembered as a lunatic or a monster. But he trusts Horatio, the one honest man, to tell the truth. And we are all, still, finding only silence for an answer
Fortinbras enters, takes the crown, and orders a soldier’s funeral. The machinery of power grinds on. Hamlet’s body is a relic.