FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Oak
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Maple
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Willow
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Juniper
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -The weeping willow tree leaning over Ophelia is a symbol of forsaken love. The nettles that are growing around the willow’s branches represent pain. The daisies floating near Ophelia’s right hand represent innocence.
Detailed explanation-4: -Also, Gertrude reports Ophelia’s death in one of the most lovely, poignant, poetic speeches in all of Shakespeare. She uses nature, water, and flower imagery to show how she is now free of the cruel human world.
Detailed explanation-5: -The willow tree that hangs over Ophelia symbolizes sin and grief (Impelluso). The symbol rooted in the willow tree may have evolved from the fact that the trees fruits fall before they are ripe, much like Ophelia’s untimely death (Impelluso). The other characters believe that she died before her time.