FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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She has been poisoned
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She died of a broken heart
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She has stabbed herself
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She has drowned
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Detailed explanation-1: -The queen brings Claudius and Laertes news of Ophelia’s death by drowning.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Act 4 Scene 7, Queen Gertrude reports that Ophelia had climbed into a willow tree (There is a willow grows aslant the brook), and that the branch had broken and dropped Ophelia into the brook, where she drowned.
Detailed explanation-3: -SARAH: Ophelia made a wreath of flowers and attempted to hang it on the branches of the willow. While doing so, she slipped and fell into the brook.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gertrude interrupts their plotting with her report of Ophelia’s drowning. She describes the young woman’s death graphically, explaining how she had fallen in the brook while weaving flower garlands; the willow tree branch on which she was sitting broke so that she tumbled into the water.
Detailed explanation-5: -Act IV Scene 7 Ophelia’s suicide Hamlet: AS & A2.