FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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drinking poison
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drowning
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suicide
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old age
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Detailed explanation-1: -Though her character can be seen as passive for the first part of the play, it is in Act 5, Scene 2 that she fully realises her dramatic potential. She wilfully disobeys Claudius by drinking the poisoned wine. She dies with cries of ‘the drink! the drink!
Detailed explanation-2: -Gertrude unwittingly drinks the poisoned wine intended for Hamlet. During the duel Laertes scratches Hamlet’s leg, infecting him with the poison. The fight turns more violent and Hamlet mortally wounds Laertes in return. Gertrude succumbs to the poisoned wine and dies.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the match, Claudius prepares poisoned wine for Hamlet, which Gertrude unknowingly drinks; as she dies, she accuses Claudius, whom Hamlet kills.
Detailed explanation-4: -Laertes selects the poisoned and sharpened rapier, and the two go at it. When Claudius offers Hamlet the poisoned goblet of wine, Hamlet refuses, and Gertrude picks up the cup instead. Toasting Hamlet, she drinks the poison, ensuring her eventual death.
Detailed explanation-5: -At the moment, although Claudius says “Gertrude, do not drinke.” but she drinks with these words, “I will my Lord, I pray you pardon me”.