FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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She drowns
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She takes poison and dies
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She stabs herself
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She joins a convent
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Detailed explanation-1: -This death announcement is considered to be one of the most poetic death announcements in literature. According to Gertrude, Ophelia had climbed into a willow tree, and then a branch had broken and dropped her into the water, where she drowned. That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Ophelia’s drowning is the consummate representation of an eternal retreat into the feminine, trading an individual voice for eternal silence in union with feminine essence. In turn, her death expresses the danger of reducing an individual to his or her gender and disregarding the voice of the marginalized.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gertrude describes how Ophelia fell into the river while picking flowers and slowly drowned, singing all the while.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ophelia’s death was triggered by her mental breakdown due to the loss of her father. In the midst of her inner turmoil, her depression worsens as she learns that Hamlet, the man she loves departs to England. When she dies, Gertrude reports her death to Claudius and Laertes.