How did ophelia in hamlet drown in the brook?

Answer 1

She shimmied up a tree to get some flowers and the branch broke and she fell in the river. She was too looney to realize that she was in danger of drowning so she eventually got pulled under by her heavy, wet clothes. At least, that's the way Gertrude tells it.

Answer 2

According to Gertrude, she drowned in a brook that must have been near the castle. She falls from a willow tree into the water. This would have occurred while everyone else was distracted by the debate over whether Claudius was guilty in Polonius's death.

Answer 3

She was picking flowers and fell off a tree when the branch broke under her. Her dress acted as a flotation device at first, but after it had become soggy, it dragged her underwater. Ophelia apparently had very little idea of what was happening to her. It's really unfair that they did not give her a proper burial since she was clearly a looney and not a suicide.

Answer 4

She drowns in a brook after falling from a tree.

Answer 5

She drowned in the brook due to a willow branching breaking and dropping her in the water

Answer 6

after the death his fathert polonuis

Answer 7

Act IV