Gertrude says she didn't do it, but everyone said she did, hence why the church wants to deny him a proper burial. Even the gravedigger who seriously questions Ophelia whether or not it was suicide: “Should she be buried in a Christian burial while she voluntarily seeks her own salvation” (Act 5, scene 1 , lines 1-2)? Gertrude comes to fight for Ophelia's case, saying: "There, on the pendant, the weeds of her crown, climbing to hang, an envious shard broke... She pulled the poor unfortunate from her melodious rest towards a muddy death” (Act 4, Scene 7, Lines). 169-180). Saying that when she fell from a branch, her clothes caught her in the water and she just didn't understand the danger she was in, so when her clothes got wet, they took her drowned without her knowledge, leaving her to dream for eternity. . Although others believe she was crazy and allowed herself to be drowned on purpose, the reasoning is unclear. Could this come from the overwhelming demands Hamlet placed on her in the "convent" scene, or from the stress of the situation between her father and brother? No one is really sure why he died, whether it was suicide, or even suicide. The only thing that might be somewhat concrete is the fact that she was clearly insane before her death. Claudius put it clearly: “Oh, it is the poison of deep sorrow. It gushes out. All this since the death of his father, and now here” (Act 4, scene