The Significance of the Manner in Which Ophelia Dies

There on the supported boughs her coronet weeds/ Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her close trophies and herself/ Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes crack wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up (line 197-201 , numeral 4, delineation 7). Shakespeargon, by letting Aphelia drowns herself, to some ex tents alleviates the pain of conclusion and pictures a beautiful Aphelia drowned In water with her dishful minded and preserved.By comparing Aphelia to a mermaid-like figure, Shakespeare gives unreal characteristics to her close and makes it smoother for Aphelia, whose life has been tragic enough. The fact that Aphelia was suffocated under(a) her own dress and that her feminine clothes make her impossible to swim is a metaphor of womens failing at the conviction be Aphelia dies without any self- defense or mobility. Shakespeare implies the role of women in society and how creation a woman gives Aphelia no chance to reply even in ending.At th e same time, Aphelia peps singing Which time she chanted snatches of old lauds/ As one incapable of her own distress/ Or Like a creature native and endued/ Unto that element. (line 202-205, Act 4, Scene 7). Her cantillate reminds audience of her madness In Scene 5 and 6, In which she sings birdcalls about men and death. Audience may Identify Aphelions chanting as a prompting of madness, but also her singing on the enclosure of death portrays a passive let-go of Life Aphelia understandably has no Intention of fighting back or even crying out for help. Compared to Aphelions conversations with Polonium and hamlet passim the play, it is clear that Aphelia never has any voice or reaction to the events of her life her madness, her lot and even her death are caused and retold by others. For several times end-to-end the play Aphelia is pictured with flowers. At the end of Act 4, Scene 7, her death is again associated with symbolic floral images Therewith fantastic garlands did sh e make/ Of cornflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples/ That all-encompassing shepherds give a grosser name/ But our cold maids do wild mens fingers call them. cardinal 193-196, Act 4, Scene 7). Flowers are symbols of Aphelions tragic life, being a victim of disruptive events mostly caused by men. Cornflower symbolizes a dream of lover, portraying a dying Aphelia still thinking about Hamlet and his lovel. Nettles signify her bad luck and tragic destiny while daisies even out innocent love2. The long purples represent Aphelions loss in love Wendell at ten same time audience can yield Tanat a grosser name raters to sexuality3.By calling long purples dead mens fingers, Shakespeare implies the causes of Aphelions death as her life is bandaged by men (Hamlet, Polonium and Alerts) reminding audience of the song which she sings earlier Larded all with sweet flowers/ Which between to the scope did not go/ With true-love showers. (line 43-45, Act 4, Scene 5). By associating Aphel ions figure with the presence of flowers, Shakespeare also lets audience sack out about womens beauty and fragility as that of flowers although women are romantic and pretty outside, they are truly black and vulnerable indeed.