FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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they represent infidelity and sorrow
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they represent stinging and sharpness
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they represent faithfulness and frailty
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they represent remembrance and thoughts
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Detailed explanation-1: -First she goes to Laertes, her bother, and says, “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray you, love, remember.” She wants her brother to help her figure out who killed their father. “Remember Think back on what’s been going on” is what she is telling him. Pansy: the symbol for thoughts and faithfulness.
Detailed explanation-2: -To Laertes, she gives rosemary, for remembrance, and pansies, for thought, suggesting both their shared history and her lost faculties.
Detailed explanation-3: -These flowers have meanings such as: Rosemary: remembrance; given to Laertes. Pansies: thoughts; given to Laertes. Fennel: flattery; given to Claudius or Gertrude.
Detailed explanation-4: -But they withered all when my father died. Although Ophelia states that rosemary is for remembrance, it is also a symbol of death and mourning, and so foreshadows her impending death. The flowers, herbs and plants that Ophelia mentions and gives to the other characters are similarly full of symbolic meaning.
Detailed explanation-5: -Rue: Rue is the symbol for bitterness, thought to be the cause of most abortions in that day, and often connected with adultery. Ophelia gives this flower to the Queen Gertrude as well as keeping some for herself.