Ophelia what the other characters interpret as grief for her father. She talks in riddles and rhymes, and sings some "mad" and bawdy songs about death and a maiden losing her virginity. She exits after bidding everyone a "good night". The last time Ophelia appears in the play is after Laertes comes to the castle to challenge Claudius over the death of his father, Polonius. Ophelia sings more songs and hands out flowers, citing their symbolic meanings, although interpretations of the meanings differ. The only herb that Shakespeare gives Ophelia herself is rue; "...there's rue for you, and here's some for
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