Hamlet

Where does Hamlet say Ophelia should go, and how does she die?

ophelia has to go somewhere cause hamlet doesnt want her around

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In her anger Ophelia tries to return trinkets that Hamlet has given her in the past. Angrily, he tells her she should join a convent for it will stop her from becoming a "breeder of sinners." He then goes into a tirade against all women, denouncing women as a whole and denouncing marriage.

Ophelia goes mad, and later drowns in the river. Some believe it was suicide, others believe it was simply the result of insanity.

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He says she should go to a nunnery. This is a pun, since at the time a nunnery was also slang for a brothel. She dies by drowning after her rant with the guard in which she intimates that Hamlet slept with her and promised to marry her.

Hamlet tells Ophelia to go to a nunnery, "Get thee to a nunn'ry, why woulds't thou be a breeder of sinners?" Basically he is telling Ophelia not to have any kids because all men are sinners and all women are liars. Ophelia later drowns herself in a creek.