The importance of rigorously adapting source material:

Unlike the other three paintings of Ophelia with eyes closed, body level as a plank on the water, the Millais (#2) (with head slightly up, palms skyward, lower body pulled downward) depicted the most correct physics of a body floating while buoyed up by a voluminous dress—

…Her clothes spread wide

And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up…

—a dress which would soon become “heavy with drink” and drag her down “to muddy death”.

Moreover, her eyes are open, lips parted, because she’s singing:

…As one incapable of her own distress,

Or like a creature native and endued unto that element…

(The Millais has haunted me since i first saw it in my high school textbook—The Story of Art, EH Gombrich—some four decades ago, before i had ever read Hamlet.)