I like pretty flowers

Flower Power Act 4 Scene 5

1.     Ophelia describes how she misses hamlet and how she loved him and after how unkindly he treated her because, of that she looks in this screwed up state of losing her love.

2.     Because she could never express herself, and now when she does she is also screwed up she doesn’t like her life now from what her father caused.

3.     He calls her rose for being beautiful like the flower, and May symbolizes youth that she is young and beautiful.

4.     Laertes

1.     Rose mary and pansies- Rose maries are for him to remember their father, pansies are for his thoughts on his father.

Claudius

2.     Fennel and columbine- Fennel means deceit, and the columbine meaning that he has a lack of love to Gertrude.

Gertrude

3.     Rue and daisy- A rue means symbol of remorse, a daisy means innocence but she was not innocent from being with Claudius and leaving Old King Hamlet.

5.     She must wear it with a difference she must wear it for remorse, because she cannot do what the priest does on Sunday with it for grace or mercy.

6.     She can not give out violets because after her father died no one is faithful its all gone and has faded away like the flowers.

7.     It is how she died she climbed up the tree wanting to die with the flowers in her hair.

8.     A. Butter cups- ingratitude, she was not thankful to her father for forcing her to do those things that she didn’t want to do.

B. Nettles- cruelty, she had a cruel life of being order around and hurt by the ones she loved.  

C. Daises- innocence, she had innocence in life while growing up and knowing Hamlet, but Hamlet could have taken it away.

D. Orchids- Love, she loved Hamlet, and her family her whole life, she just didn’t want to deal with life anymore.