In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the deeds done. When the clouds roll away, however, the rain has washed away all the blood in the streets and the world is clean and new again, as if all the violence and destruction of the storm served a divine purpose.Anonymous
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This quote is an interesting representation of the world we live in. We perceive all sorts of things through our five senses, and we see and hear and touch and smell and taste and even feel all kinds of things. But we don’t really see them all. We only see what we want to see.
We fill in the blanks with what we already know to be true, but the truth is often not so black and white. When reading this quote, it’s easy to think that Ophelia meant that the characters in her play were performing evil deeds under the cover of darkness. The world she was writing about would have been a very different place if she hadn’t been killed by Hamlet, however.
As Ophelia sees it, all is well in the world because her blood is no longer on the streets — all that remains are the words of the play — but that’s not quite true either.
Source: Atlas
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