Hamlet

Act 4. Scene 7

How do Gertrude's words help to "refashion" our image of hr as regal, a powerful Queen?

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Gertrude enters with yet more tragic news. She says that Ophelia has drowned. She was watching Ophelia play in the branches of a willow by the water when she fell in. Gertrude says that Ophelia seemed ignorant of danger and went to her death slowly, singing songs. 

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