Assertion: hamlet | /r/CapableOf | kill polonius
Facets:
value: mistakenly
type: MANNER
value: so easily
type: MANNER
value: in a fit of madness
type: TEMPORAL
value: after the play
type: TEMPORAL
value: later that night
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Hamlet, believing it is Claudius, stabs wildly, killing Polonius, but he pulls aside the curtain and sees his mistake.
text: We can see this in the famous “​curtain scene” when Hamlet kills Polonius.
text: However, once Hamlet erroneously kills Polonius instead of Claudius, and learns that Claudius has ordered his execution, Hamlet realizes even he is not exempt from the malevolent forces of fate.
text: Later that night, after the play, Hamlet kills Polonius during a private meeting between Hamlet and his mother, Queen Gertrude.
text: The Queen informs the King that Hamlet has killed Polonius in a fit of madness, and he orders Rozencrantz and Guildenstern to find the body.
text: After Hamlet kills Polonius, he disappears the old man’s body, unleashing a series of events that result in the play’s cascade of deaths.
text: In act 4, scene 1 of Hamlet, how does the king react to hearing that Hamlet killed Polonius?
text: In act 4 scene 7, Claudius has convinced Laertes that Hamlet killed Polonius and that Hamlet wants to kill him (Claudius).
text: In Act 4 Scene 7, Claudius has convinced Laertes that Hamlet killed Polonius and that Hamlet wants to kill him (Claudius).
text: At some time between act 4 scene 5 and act 4, scene 7 of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Claudius tells Laertes that Hamlet killed Polonius, Laertes's father.
text: When Claudius hears from Gertrude in act 4, scene 1 of Shakespeare's Hamlet that Hamlet killed Polonius
text: After telling them that Hamlet has killed Polonius, he asks them to go and find Hamlet, get Polonius' body and to put Polonius' body in the chapel.
text: Laertes, Polonius's son, returns from his studies in Paris after Hamlet kills Polonius.
text: After Hamlet kills Polonius, Ophelia goes mad and eventually drowns.
text: After Hamlet kills Polonius, that man's son, Laertes, returns to Denmark in order to avenge his father's death.
text: Hamlet attempted to raise his rank by killing Claudius, but accidentally killed Polonius.
text: Hamlet is able to kill Polonius so easily after he's been so hesitant to act in other situations because:
text: Hamlet, now free to act, mistakenly kills Polonius, thinking he is Claudius.
text: Hamlet unknowingly kills Polonius, provoking Ophelia's descent into madness, ultimately resulting in her suicide and the climax of the play: a duel between Laertes and Hamlet.