FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Who drinks the poison at the close of the play?
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Gertrude
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Claudius
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Hamlet
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Laertes
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -When Claudius offers Hamlet the poisoned goblet of wine, Hamlet refuses, and Gertrude picks up the cup instead. Toasting Hamlet, she drinks the poison, ensuring her eventual death.
Detailed explanation-2: -She wilfully disobeys Claudius by drinking the poisoned wine. She dies with cries of ‘the drink! the drink! I am poisoned’ (5.2. 264), and in so doing identifies Claudius as her killer.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Laurence Olivier’s film adaptation of Hamlet, Gertrude drinks knowingly, presumably to save her son from certain death. If she drinks on purpose, then she’s the self-sacrificing mother Hamlet has always wanted her to be.
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