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A paper which considers the poisoned-ear motif in Hamlet and in other Shakespeare plays, with specific reference to the connection between the land and the king in Hamlet, and the significance of the "poisoned ear of Denmark" in terms of propaganda. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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1: v of Hamlet, the idea of the "poisoned ear" recurs frequently not only in Hamlet but also in other Shakespearian plays. As Steele (2005) points out, Iago refers to
"pouring pestilence" in Othellos ear, when he leads him to believe that Desdemona has been unfaithful, and in Cymbeline there is a similar reference, when Pisanio tells Posthumous that a
"strange infection is fallen" into his ear, because he suspects Imogen of infidelity. In Hamlet, we have several references to the dripping of actual poison
into someones ear, as a way of killing them: in the Ghosts comment, though, he is also talking about the "ear of Denmark" being "rankly abused" by the "forged process
of (his) death". Clearly, this means something besides the physical act of murder, and in fact the Ghost is talking about the way that the whole country has been deceived,
by Claudiuss committing of murder and then taking over the kingship. We have to remember that in medieval mythology and cosmology, the land and the king were directly connected: an
injury to one was an injury to the other, and a crippled or barren king was always associated with a spoiled or barren land. The population regarded their monarch as
sent from God, and in return, the monarch was expected to keep their best interests at heart and to protect them. Not only has
the land of Denmark been deprived of its king, it has also been deceived as to how this has come about. The injury is made even more grievous when we
find that the new king, Hamlets uncle Claudius, is the murderer. The country has therefore had its king killed, its people deceived, and a murdering usurper set on the throne.
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