FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Hamlet
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Osric
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Claudius
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Laertes
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Gertrude
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Detailed explanation-1: -Laertes, Claudius and Gertrude also all die. The only central character left alive at the end of the play is Horatio and Hamlet asks him, as he dies, to ‘tell my story’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet’s central characters are Hamlet himself, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Polonius, Laertes, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and Horatio. But only Horatio survives when the curtain falls at the end of Shakespeare’s play.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was sent by the king, to invite Hamlet to a duel with Laertes, during which the conspirators plan to murder Hamlet. Osric presides over the duel and acts as referee. During the course of the play all of the people who have been brought into King Claudius’ plot against Hamlet die. Osric is the sole survivor.
Detailed explanation-4: -His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. The play ends with a duel, during which the King, Queen, Hamlet’s opponent and Hamlet himself are all killed.