ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -THE manner of Hamlet’s father’s death-a dose of poison in the ear-could have been suggested to Shakespeare by a medical discovery of the time, the description by Bartolommeo Eustachio of the internal connection between the ear and the throat.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare’s usage 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -Old Hamlet, the King of Denmark, is poisoned by his brother, Claudius. Claudius uses the poison for his own selfish ambition and marries Old Hamlet’s widow, Gertrude, making him the new King of Denmark.

Detailed explanation-5: -Old Hamlet, the king, tells his son that his brother, Claudius, poisoned him in the garden by pouring poison into his ear.