ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Finally, ____ are dead by poison.
A
the king, the queen and Hamlet
B
Hamlet and the queen
C
the king and the queen
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -She wilfully disobeys Claudius by drinking the poisoned wine. She dies with cries of ‘the drink! the drink! I am poisoned’ (5.2. 264), and in so doing identifies Claudius as her killer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Claudius murdered his brother to marry his brother’s widow and seize the throne. How did King Hamlet Die? The ghost of King Hamlet tells Prince Hamlet that when he was taking his regular nap in his orchard, his brother, Claudius, poured a potion into his ear. The potion was leprous distilment, a poison.

Detailed explanation-3: -1600 play Hamlet. Laertes is the son of Polonius and the brother of Ophelia. In the final scene, he mortally stabs Hamlet with a poison-tipped sword to avenge the deaths of his father and sister, for which he blamed Hamlet. While dying of the same poison, he implicates King Claudius.

Detailed explanation-4: -Old Hamlet, the king, tells his son that his brother, Claudius, poisoned him in the garden by pouring poison into his ear.

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