FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Ophelia thought they were pretty.
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The color of the blooms is Gertrude’s favorite color.
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Rue represents bitterness, sorrow, and repentance.
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It reminded Ophelia of her.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ophelia offers rue to Queen Gertrude and keeps some for herself, with two different intentions. The queen “must wear [her] rue with a difference, ” meaning as a token of repentance while Ophelia will wear her in regret at the loss of both her father and her lover.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fennel is said to have symbolized flattery and adultery. Columbines were for ingratitude, adultery, faithlessness, or deceived lovers. (The fennel and columbine may have been for Gertrude, she had been unfaithful. And/or they may have been for Claudius because he committed adultery with Gertrude. )
Detailed explanation-3: -The rue the Queen must wear with a difference, perhaps referring to its action as a contraceptive, suggests her sexual relations with the King, thus continuing the theme of Hamlet’s Freudian concerns in the play.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ophelia gives fennel, symbol of flattery, to King Claudius. She also gives him columbine for ingratitude and infidelity. Rue, for sorrow, she gives to Gertrude; she also offers Gertrude daisy, for springtime and love, and says she lost her own violets, which represent sweetness, when her father died.