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HAMLET: Poison Imagery/Symbolism
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Metaphorical Use of Poison
Physical Uses of Poison
- Claudius and Laertes have a plan to kill Hamlet
- Sword will be poisoned & will fulfill plan with the poisoned cup
- Gertude drinks the poison & dies along with Claudius
- The poisoned sword kills Hamlet and Laertes
- Claudius killed King Hamlet with ear poison
- Claudius poisons Gertrudes mind, by convincing her to think he's good and that they should be married, also so he can be King over Hamlet
"O wicked wit, and gifts that have the power so to seduce - won to his shameful lust/The will of my most seeming - virtuous Queen" (IV, 44-46)
Metaphorical Use of Poison, continued
- Convinces Laertes that Hamlet is responsible for Polonius' death and that Laertes should have revenge on Hamlet
"You must put me in your heart for friend, sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear, The he which hath your noble father slain pursued my life" (IV, vii 2-5)
- Convinces Rosencrantz and Gildenstern to spy on their former friend Hamlet
Throughout this Presentation
Betrayal
Revenge
- Physical Uses of Poison
- Metaphorical Use of Poison
- Betrayal
- Corruption
- Death
- Revenge
- Laertes is killed by his own weapon
- Hamlet kills Polonius; resulting in betraying Ophelia's trust
- Hamlet is mentally poisoned
- Hamlets behaviour; rejects Ophelia and murders her farther unknowningly
- Hamlet kills Claudius by making him drink from the poisoned cup; for his father's death
Death
Corruption
- Poison kills King Hamlet first
- Claudius put poison in the cup; kills Gertrude and himself
- Poison on the sword kills both Laertes and Hamlet
- Claudius kills his own brother; he has a need for power
- His actions kill everyone else
- Manipulates Rozencrantz and Gildenstern to spy on Hamlet
HAMLET: Poison Imagery/Symbolism
Group: Mikayla, Shelby, Mara, & Riley
Presentation made by: Mikayla
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