My feeling is that she offed herself. And really, in keeping with Shakespeare's credo of killing off all the "evil-doers" in his tragedies, one has to wonder if Ophelia truly was as "innocent" as one would think.

I've always had this stray thought that she wasn't as helpless as one is led to believe. I think she willfully played the game. She just wasn't skilled enough.

She was, for the most part, a pawn, as you say - a "plaything" for everyone involved, and most especially, Hamlet. Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to show us this when he has her buried in Yuri's old grave.

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How do you keep up hope in such a situation and was she "wrong" to suicide?

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Are we not just about full circle here, now?

....and still no answers; no resolution. But, I guess, I should not have asked such a question. It was unfair of me.