FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Flowers
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Humors
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ophelia uses flowers as symbols of her deep sorrow and grief. She is very upset because her father, Polonius, has just been killed by Hamlet. Being a sensitive and intelligent young woman, Ophelia needs to express herself, and she does so by passing out flowers to the court in her seeming mad state of mind.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ophelia gives fennel, symbol of flattery, to King Claudius. She also gives him columbine for ingratitude and infidelity. Rue, for sorrow, she gives to Gertrude; she also offers Gertrude daisy, for springtime and love, and says she lost her own violets, which represent sweetness, when her father died.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Ophelia: There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts. . . . There’s fennel for you, and columbines.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ophelia’s metaphoric use of flowers in Act 4 Scene 5 is to suggest her obedient nature and her grief for Polonius’ death and Hamlet’s madness, but Gertrude’s reference to flowers and herbs in Act 4 Scene 7 is for a report of Ophelia’s death.