FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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flowers
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letters
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rings
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Detailed explanation-1: -Flowers and herbs that Ophelia delivers to other characters in Act 4 Scene 5 are rosemary, pansies, rue, daisy, and violet. Ophelia gives rosemary and pansies to Laertes (4.5. 176-178) as a response to the Laertes’s alert against Hamlet; “remember well/ What I have said to you” (1.3.
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: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Rosemary and Pansies-Ophelia gives Rosemary and Pansy to her brother Laertes. She herself states that these two flowers are for thoughts, prayers and remembrance.
Detailed explanation-5: -“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.