FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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She has married another man, chosen by her father.
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She has gone to a convent in Norway.
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She has defied her father and announced that she is going to England to be with Hamlet.
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She has gone crazy.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why does Ophelia go mad? Ophelia goes mad because her father, Polonius, whom she deeply loved, has been killed by Hamlet. In addition, Hamlet, whom she also loved, has cruelly rejected her.
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. Gertrude says that Ophelia appeared “incapable of her own distress".
Detailed explanation-3: -Rejected by Hamlet, Ophelia is now desolate at the loss of her father. She goes mad and drowns.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ophelia is a tragic figure in a tragic play. First loved, then spurned by Hamlet, she goes mad and drowns in the river, though we do not know whether by accident or intention.
Detailed explanation-5: -After they settle on the plan, Gertrude arrives to inform the king and Laertes that Ophelia is dead. She was found drowned in a brook, surrounded by flowers. Laertes grieves over the loss of his sister, while Claudius frets about his plans.