stiles (ophelia)

At last, I entered the museum with relief. I headed to the European paintings collections first, because I wanted to go there whenever I visit an art museum—I like looking at paintings sometimes. As I pass by lots of paintings, mostly from the renaissance and baroque, I stopped at a Pre-Raphaelite painting called Ophelia. Looking at it, I’m mesmerized by her upward gaze, the details of her silver embroidered dress, and the flowers floating with her on the river. Even the guy next to me—wearing the coolest outfit I’ve ever seen—agrees with me. He whispered to me that she looks very pale. I could see that. I explained that it’s from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where she fell into the river picking flowers and slowly drowned while singing. I don’t know if he's into literature, but it created an interesting discussion between both of us.