I never went back to rewatch it so there could've been a hard and fast clue that this isn't a possibility, but it made me think of her adventures as wholly imaginary on her part.
This is actually brilliant – I think I will go with this explanation for now, because this explains why her imaginary world was so dark. When someone creates an imaginary world they can go two ways, perhaps, one is to create a world totally different from your own and another is to create something influenced by your real world.
There are clues for both options (fairytale world is imaginary/not imaginary). On one hand, Ophalia’s step-father was able to see the mandrake Root, though we never saw it through his eyes, the Root he saw could have looked completely different. On the other hand, Ophelia sees her dead mother in the Kingdom of Underworld.
It makes her ruining the dress to confront the toad even more sad and hurtful towards her mother. Not that Ophelia didn't truly believe she was fulfilling a task, but her mother was then right that she was acting out.
Even if she was trying to imagine things, Ophelia tried to preserve dress when she took it off. The dress was spoiled because of the wind and rain. Even though this connects with “rebellion” theory, Ophelia wasn’t trying to do it deliberately, I think…
Instead it's her dying creation that she succeeded in her tasks and believed herself to becoming a princess. When, really, she'd just been tragically and stupidly killed.
I think after much brain-raking this is what I think. It just the mood of the story was so tragic that this seems to be more fitting.
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Date: 2007-03-09 05:25 pm (UTC)This is actually brilliant – I think I will go with this explanation for now, because this explains why her imaginary world was so dark. When someone creates an imaginary world they can go two ways, perhaps, one is to create a world totally different from your own and another is to create something influenced by your real world.
There are clues for both options (fairytale world is imaginary/not imaginary). On one hand, Ophalia’s step-father was able to see the mandrake Root, though we never saw it through his eyes, the Root he saw could have looked completely different.
On the other hand, Ophelia sees her dead mother in the Kingdom of Underworld.
It makes her ruining the dress to confront the toad even more sad and hurtful towards her mother. Not that Ophelia didn't truly believe she was fulfilling a task, but her mother was then right that she was acting out.
Even if she was trying to imagine things, Ophelia tried to preserve dress when she took it off. The dress was spoiled because of the wind and rain. Even though this connects with “rebellion” theory, Ophelia wasn’t trying to do it deliberately, I think…
Instead it's her dying creation that she succeeded in her tasks and believed herself to becoming a princess. When, really, she'd just been tragically and stupidly killed.
I think after much brain-raking this is what I think. It just the mood of the story was so tragic that this seems to be more fitting.