Many of the images and videos of Ophelia's death set in a natural environment invite explicit comparison with Millais and other nineteenth-century artists who have drawn upon allusions to the natural world in Shakespeare's text. However, many contemporary works radically alter the setting, de-romantizing it, often shifting it away from the natural world, and, it may be argued, bringing it closer to the world of the average modern viewer. A significant number of postings, for example, place Ophelia in a bath tub. Indeed, It is worth noting, perhaps, that the prevalence of photographs of women in bath tubs has led to the formation of a Flickr group named "Sensual Bathtub." There is also an "Ophelia" group and an "Art of John Everett Millais" group and a Yahoo "Ophelia's Pool" group that contains a separate gallery of 193 images of Ophelia in a bath tub .[32]
    Obviously, the bath tub is a more accessible, more hygienic, more comfortable setting than a stream or pond (one Flickr photographer comments on her pleasure at being able to use a well-appointed hotel bathroom for bath tub pictures of herself while another describes in her blog the cold water and the reactions of passersby at seeing her in a stream). To this one may add the comment by Elizabeth Hunt in her blog regarding her choice of a bath tub for a self-portrait as Ophelia: "I know it's a bit modern but I'm not feeling brave enough to go out and do something like this in public, in a lake!" Rosie Hardy has a similar comment regarding her use of a swimming pool: "This shoot was SO MUCH FUN and so scary!!! I didn't have the courage to actually get in the river, the water was brown, so I went to my local swimming pool and took pictures of myself in the water there in front of EVERYONE. In a dress. The lifeguards were very good about it, they helped take the photos and made sure I didn't drown!" [33] A bath tub may also seem to be a more intimate and domestic setting that is especially suited (see below) to self-portraiture. For models, it is more private, and for videographers and photographers, working in a bathroom permits greater technical control.[34] For those wishing to stress the modernity of their appropriation, the use of a bath tub setting, as one Flickr contributor (mydearDelilah) commented, allowed "for more modern purposes of re-inventing Ophelia."[35] One might also speculate that the bath tub is very apt because it is familiar to modern viewers as a potential place for suicide (more common than a stream or other natural body of water). Although the significance of Shakespeare's natural world may be lost, modern viewers are perhaps drawn closer to Ophelia by seeing her in a setting that reflects their own familiar world. Although Ophelia's death in bath tub images is primarily associated with drowning, one photographer (Yulek) has merged this with the common modern suicide method of slashing the wrists in a bath tub of warm water. Ophelia in this instance is depicted in a white dress in a white bath tub filled with water, but the water is red with blood. [36] The idea parallels a 2003 production of Hamlet in which Ophelia (Anna Meade) killed herself by slitting her wrists while in a bath tub. Perhaps influenced by this approach, the 2010 Metropolitan Opera production of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet (1868), although it did not include a bath tub, had Ophelia in a white dress that then became covered in blood when she died after stabbing herself and then slitting her wrists.