Post by dambrose on Nov 1, 2011 20:56:07 GMT -5
I thought the ending to the play was very interesting but dull at the same time. It was very action packed and it kept me reading, but I still did not like the ending. It was too predictable and lacked a wow factor. The end was very basic and original with all the characters dying at one time in one intense scene. Maybe there should have been a twist or spin at the end. It almost sounded like Hamlet, Laertes, and Gertrude were not as engulfed in what they were trying to accomplish like Claudius was. Hamlet asks for forgiveness from Laertes at one point saying, “Give me your pardon, sir. I’ve done you wrong;....” (pg. 169 lines 231-248). Then when Laertes and Hamlet are fencing Laertes says, “And yet ‘tis almost against my conscience” (pg. 173 line 301). The two lines show a sense that the characters knew that what they were doing was insanity and inhumane. I think that the ending should have had some of the characters live and some of them die or maybe something more creative. The ending was a disgrace to the play after all the action of the play was built up to the ending.