FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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poison in a cup
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poison on a sword
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poison in the ear
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stabbed in a duel
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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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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-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: -As they fight, Gertrude drinks the poisoned wine that Claudius had intended for Hamlet and dies. Laertes manages to wound Hamlet slightly with the poisoned tip of his sword. In the heat of the fight, the swords are switched. Laertes is in turn wounded by Hamlet, using the poisoned weapon, and dies.