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
Grace in Christianity affirms: According to a commonly accepted categorization, made by St. Thomas Aquinas in his "Summa Theologiae", grace can be given either to make the person receiving it pleasing to God ("gratia gratum faciens")—so that the person is sanctified and justified—or else to help the receiver lead someone else to God ("gratia gratis data"). The former type of grace, "gratia gratum faciens", in turn, can be described as sanctifying (or habitual) grace—when it refers to the divine life which, according to the Church, infuses a person's soul once he is justified; or else as actual grace—when it refers to those punctual