Post by jensen40 on Oct 31, 2011 18:00:43 GMT -5
After finishing act five, I was surprised that everyone important, except for Horatio, ended up dieing. I had a feeling that Clauduis and Polonius would eventually die. However, I never thought Ophelia, Gertrude, and Laertes would end up dieing. I believe Clauduis and Laertes deserved to die because they were trying to murder Hamlet in the first place. They also basically killed themselves since the poisoned sword was both of their ideas. Hamlet said, "The point envonemed too? Then, venom, to thy work" (Act V, Lines 326-327) and then stabbed the king, who soon died. Just as the king died, Laertes also died because of the poisoned sword. They died by their own sword. What happened in this act is very realistic because Laertes and Claudius caused it upon themselves. They caused their own downfall, and their own deaths.