Ophelia me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays; O, you must wear your rue with a difference". Rue is well known for its symbolic meaning of regret, but the herb is also used to treat pain, bruises and has abortive qualities. In Act 4 Scene 7, Queen Gertrude reports that Ophelia had climbed into a willow tree ("There is a willow grows aslant the brook"), and that the branch had broken and dropped Ophelia into the brook, where she drowned. Gertrude says that Ophelia appeared "incapable of her own distress". Gertrude's announcement of Ophelia's death has been praised
Literary influence of Hamlet and Simple Murders"—in which the title character sets her son straight about Old Hamlet's murder: "It wasn't Claudius, darling, it was me!" Also, because of the criticism of the sexism, American author Lisa Klein wrote "Ophelia", a novel that portrays Ophelia, too, as feigning madness and surviving. Author Molly Booth has written a Young Adult historical fiction novel, "Saving Hamlet", about a teenage girl who time travels back to the original production of "Hamlet" at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, 1601. The book has a focus on Ophelia's role, and how the sexism from Shakespeare's era translates to sexism in