FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Poison poured into his mouth while sleeping
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Poison poured into his ear while sleeping
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Stabbed him
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Hires a hit-man
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Detailed explanation-1: -Claudius poured poison into his ear when he was asleep in his orchard. The poison curdled old Hamlet’s blood and caused sores all over his body. The rumours spread around was that he was bite by a poisonous snake. Fratricide is shown from old Hamlet killing his brother Claudius.
Detailed explanation-2: -Remember that Claudius killed King Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear. Shakespeare continually illustrates that words can function as poison in the ear as well. As the ghost says in Act I, scene v, Claudius has poisoned “the whole ear of Denmark” with his words (I.v.36).
Detailed explanation-3: -The poison poured in the king’s ear by Claudius is used by the ghost to symbolize the corrosive effect of Claudius’s dishonesty on the health of Denmark.
Detailed explanation-4: -The ghost of the king appears before his son, Prince Hamlet, and tells him that his own brother, now his converted stepfather, has killed him, pouring into his ear the contents of an ampoule of henbane (Act I, scene 5).
Detailed explanation-5: -1) In Hamlet, pouring poison in a person’s ear had both a literal and symbolic significance. The literal meaning is that they are telling lies to people in order to deceive them. They are pouring poison or “poisonous” words into that person’s ear.