ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What do Laertes and Claudius plot against Hamlet?
A
To have Laertes kill him with a poisoned sword
B
To have Hamlet arrested and thrown in a dungeon
C
To have Hamlet sent to England in chains this time
D
To banish Hamlet from Denmark
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -During the match, Claudius conspires with Laertes to kill Hamlet. They plan that Hamlet will die either on a poisoned rapier or with poisoned wine. The plans go awry when Gertrude unwittingly drinks from the poisoned cup and dies. Then both Laertes and Hamlet are wounded by the poisoned blade, and Laertes dies.

Detailed explanation-2: -Laertes wants Hamlet dead to avenge Polonius’s death; Claudius wants Hamlet dead because he is afraid that Hamlet knows that Claudius killed his own brother, Hamlet’s father. Claudius uses Laertes’s grief to manipulate him into going along with Claudius’s plan to kill Hamlet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Claudius and Laertes launch a poisonous plot. The king, furious that Hamlet is returning, convinces Laertes to duel Hamlet with a poisoned, sharpened sword. He also plans to offer Hamlet a poisoned drink if Laertes fails to kill him. Laertes agrees to Claudius’s plan, hoping to kill Hamlet in revenge.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act 4 Scene 7-Claudius and Laertes plot to kill Hamlet.

Detailed explanation-5: -Laertes /leɪˈɜːrtiːz/ is a character in William Shakespeare’s c. 1600 play Hamlet. 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.

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