FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Having Laertes stab Hamlet with a poison-tipped sword.
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Poison
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Cutting off Hamlet’s food supply when he’s been sent away.
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Hiring soldiers to kill Hamlet while he’s on the run.
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the match, Claudius conspires with Laertes to kill Hamlet. They plan that Hamlet will die either on a poisoned rapier or with poisoned wine. The plans go awry when Gertrude unwittingly drinks from the poisoned cup and dies. Then both Laertes and Hamlet are wounded by the poisoned blade, and Laertes dies.
Detailed explanation-2: -The king concocts a backup plan as well, proposing that if Hamlet succeeds in the duel, Claudius will offer him a poisoned cup of wine to drink from in celebration. Gertrude enters with tragic news.
Detailed explanation-3: -Claudius is better at plotting than Laertes. After all, he has practice. Having decided on assassination, he also has a backup plan ready: he’ll poison a glass of wine, so that if Laertes doesn’t succeed in touching Hamlet with his sword, they can poison the prince another way.
Detailed explanation-4: -Laertes shares his own plan to dip his sword in a poison so lethal that a minor scratch will cause instant death. Claudius adds yet another safeguard: He will poison a goblet of wine for Hamlet to drink, so that even if Laertes fails to draw blood, Hamlet will die.
Detailed explanation-5: -Remember that Claudius killed King Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear. Shakespeare continually illustrates that words can function as poison in the ear as well. As the ghost says in Act I, scene v, Claudius has poisoned “the whole ear of Denmark” with his words (I.v.36).