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It is not by any means clear that she intentionally drowned herself. Gertrude's account of her death suggests that she may have been unaware of her danger. If it wasn't an accident, it seems from the mad scenes that she was disturbed by her father's death "I cannot choose but weep to think they would lay him i' th' cold ground." However, drowning oneself was a traditional mode of suicide for young women with unwanted pregnancies, and this might also be Ophelia's problem, as her mad scenes also show: "Quoth she 'Before you tumbled me, you promised me to wed.' He answers, 'So wold I ha' done, by yonder sun, if thou hadst not come to my bed.'"

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She didn't want to live in the dark anymore about Brutus' secret life and was miserable.

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She swallowed hot coals which burned her up from the inside out.

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She thought they would come after her in search of revenge for her husband; she decided to kill herself before someone else did

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She kills herself because she finds out that Brutus had something to do with Caesars murder.

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All of the consequences of Brutus's part in the conspiracy were also felt by Portia. She could no longer live with honour in Rome.

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she swallowed hot coal

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