As one incapable of her own distress,
or like a creature native and indu'd
unto that element. but long it could not be
till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
pull d the poor wretch from her melodious lay
to muddy death[.]
o ophelia's death seems to be a contrived murder, which gertrude is trying to
hide.
o gertrude is opening up the possibility that ophelia did not kill herself.
c ophelia's death is depicted as something that released her from madness.
o gertrude is poetic in her description of ophelia's death.