FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Hamlet being killed by Laertes
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Gertrude drinking the poisoned goblet
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Ophelia drowning herself
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Polonius being stabbed behind the drapes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet’s madness Horatio warns Hamlet that the Ghost “might deprive your sovereignty of reason/And draw you into madness” (I. iv.). The Ghost itself instructs Hamlet: “Taint not thy mind” (I.v.). These warnings foreshadow Hamlet’s descent into madness.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 1. Horatio gives an onimous warning of something bad about to happen to the country after the appearance and exit of the Ghost. This foreshadows the tragic events and revelations to follow.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet tells Horatio again that he is dying, and urges his friend not to commit suicide in light of all the tragedies, but instead to stay alive and tell his story.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet seeing skulls of death at the cemetery and him fighting with Laertes, foreshadows that there will be more fighting in the future and possibly death. Laertes blaming Hamlet for Ophelia’s death, shows that he’s not moving on from her death.