insanity, which she couldn’t help all the manipulating factors or people around her. Ophelia states her death in Act 3, Scene 1 Ophelia then speaks and tells Hamlet that she can end her life by just taking a knife out and calling it quits. This is evidence that Ophelia was contemplating suicide to just end it all and she wouldn’t have to suffer anymore. In Act 4, Scene 5 Ophelia states that she gives Gertrude Fennel, which are flowers and Columbine to Polonius, which symbolizes adultery this has to mean that Ophelia knew about the affair between Gertrude and Polonius. All of these statements are evidence of Ophelia’s Suicidal thoughts and reasons for Gertrude to get rid of her, because she knew what had happened between Polonius Gertrude ,and
