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A five page paper which looks at the way in which poison is used in Hamlet, both in terms of the demise of the characters and as a metaphor for the corruption which destroys Denmark, and the part that Hamlet himself plays in this destruction.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLPois.rtf
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of poison in Hamlet" Research Compiled for Enterprises Inc By , January 2013 To Use This Report Correctly, Please Visit
/aftersale.htm The concept
of poison plays a significant role throughout the text of Shakespeares Hamlet, in both a physical and a psychological sense. There is a sense not only that poison is the
favourite means of many of the characters of achieving and advancement and settling scores, but also that there is a poison of the spirit - "something rotten" - which is
spreading across the state of Denmark.
Poison in its physical sense, as a murder weapon, appears throughout the play. Hamlets father is killed by poison the ear; this is re-enacted by the
Player King; the sword and the drink are poisoned in the final fight between Hamlet and Laertes; even the herbs which Ophelia strews around are not the most wholesome of
plants. The use of poison as a means of dispatching ones enemy, or ones rival, exemplifies the underhanded and dishonest dealings which go on in Denmark.
There are few straightforward, face-to-face battles between the
characters: all is deception and deceit, and secretive murders rather than honourable victories or deaths in battle. Even when Hamlet kills Polonius by the sword, it is not in formal
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