FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Hamlet confronts his mother then kills Polonius
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Hamlet tries to kill his mother and Polonius dies defending her
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Hamlet finds Polonius behind the curtain and kills him
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Hamlet kills the king first, then Polonius
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Act IV, what sequence of events is triggered by killing Polonius? Hamlet is sent away, Laertes comes back to take over the throne and seek revenge, Ophelia goes mad and drowns, Laertes and the King plot Hamlet’s death.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet lifts the arras and discovers Polonius’s body: he has not killed the king and achieved his revenge but has murdered the relatively innocent Polonius. He bids the old man farewell, calling him an “intruding fool” (III. iv. 30).
Detailed explanation-3: -He accuses Gertrude of lustfulness, and she begs him to leave her alone.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet’s entrance so alarms Gertrude that she cries out for help. Polonius echoes her cry, and Hamlet, thinking Polonius to be Claudius, stabs him to death. Hamlet then verbally attacks his mother for marrying Claudius.