ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who all die from the poison?
A
Ophelia
B
Hamlet, Claudius, and Gertrude
C
Claudius, and Ophelia
D
Gertude, Laertes, and Hamlet
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Looking at manner of death, King Hamlet and Gertrude were poisoned; Polonius, Laertes, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern were stabbed (or encountered some other violent death); Laertes, Claudius, and Hamlet were each stabbed and poisoned; and Ophelia stands alone in suicide.

Detailed explanation-2: -Queen Gertrude In the finale of Act 5, Scene 2, Gertrude drinks the poisoned wine that Claudius had intended for Hamlet. There is a moment when Claudius could have stopped her, but his plot to kill Hamlet would have been revealed. Claudius lets Gertrude drink the wine, thus killing her.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. While dying of the same poison, he implicates King Claudius.

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