Read the excerpt below and answer the question. therefore i forbid my tears: but yet / it is our trick; nature her custom holds, / let shame say what it will: when these are gone, /the woman will be out. when laertes says these words after ophelia’s death, the word woman refers to: a. her sister b. the queen c. female deviousness d. female weakness

When Laertes says the above words after Ophelia’s death, the word woman refers to female weakness.

The correct option is D.

After learning that Ophelia had died of being drowned, Laertes associates his watery tears with  "too much water"  which Ophelia hid inside her. He wanted to speak and cry out the grief which he has been witnessing because of the uncertain death of Ophelia, but is unable to do so. He says that tears are the natural way through which grief can be poured out. He adds that grief is the symbol of female weakness. After the tears roll off "the woman will be out" of him.

it the climax in the poem

it ends with a marriage, but also with prospero giving up his power.

the tempest is a play written by william shakespeare between 1610-1611, it narrates the story of prospero a magician that sets a storm to wreck a ship, this sets the story to kill the king of naples. while it is a romantic style play, it isn´t traditional because of the ending, it end with the marriage and the magician giving up his powers.