ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Laertes, poisoned by his own sword, declares, “I am justly kill’d with my own treachery” (V. ii. 318). The queen moans that the cup must have been poisoned, calls out to Hamlet, and dies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hebenon is the agent of death in Hamlet’s father’s murder; it sets in motion the events of the play. It is spelled hebona in the Quartos and hebenon in the Folios. This is the only mention of hebona or hebenon in any of Shakespeare’s plays. All my smooth body.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thus, the ampoule containing the henbane that Claudius poured into King Hamlet’s ear could very well have contained sufficiently high enough amounts of scopolamine so as to fulfill his lethal mission.

Detailed explanation-5: -Claudius convinces Laertes to put poison on the tip of his sword to cut Hamlet in the duel. To ensure Hamlet’s death, Claudius also has a poisoned cup of wine should Hamlet win the duel. Claudius does not intervene when Gertrude drinks the poisoned cup of wine because he does not want to give himself away.