FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Strangulation
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Tuberculosis
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Drowning
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Burns
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Detailed explanation-1: -For Shakespearean heroines, a most fascinating, yet critically dismissed, character is Ophelia from Hamlet, the Danish prince Hamlet’s lover who goes mad and drowns after Hamlet murders her father.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Ophelia dies off-stage, committing suicide by drowning herself. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die off-stage, executed on Hamlet’s orders. Gertrude dies on-stage, accidentally poisoned by Claudius.
Detailed explanation-4: -Grief-stricken and outraged, Hamlet bursts upon the company, declaring in agonized fury his own love for Ophelia. He leaps into the grave and fights with Laertes, saying that “forty thousand brothers / Could not, with all their quantity of love, / make up my sum” (V.i.254–256).