FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Claudius
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Gertrude
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Horatio
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Hamlet
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -As the two are plotting, Gertrude enters the scene and relays the heart breaking news that Ophelia is dead.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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: -Gertrude reveals a clue to her avoiding Ophelia when she says, “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, / It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” The guilt remains ambiguous.