Shakespeare's plays inspired Victorian Era painters like the members of the Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood. Millais recreated the tragedy of Orphelia being driven to madness when Hamlet murdered her father. Flowers were chosen for their symbolic meanings:
poppies = death
daisies = innocence
roses = youth
violets = faithfulness and early death
pansies = love in vain
weeping willow = forsaken love
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