Day: November 6, 2015

As a dramatic climax unfolds Laertes and Hamlet are issued a fight or a duel between each over. The King has rigged the fight for Horatio to win and he has done this by lathering poison in Hamlets chalice and on the tip of Horatio’s sword. This backfires as The Queen drinks from Hamlet’s poisoned goblet and dies a slow and meaningless death. Hamlet is struck with the tip and has venom coursing through his bloodstream. They swap swords and by luck Horatio is also struck. They are both poisoned and Laertes declares that the King is guilty of murder and at this moment in time, Hamlet strikes his chance and impales the King. Hamlet is almost happy to die at the end of the play as his revenge had been fulfilled and his soul was almost at peace.

Hamlet and Horatio interrupt the two gravediggers preparing Ophelia’s grave and for the funeral. The Gravediggers have banter between them, and talk the circumstances of Ophelia’s death. She had killed herself willingly and this is not a very christian thing to do as it is profound upon.Then the funeral begins and during the procession with everybody seated, Claudius, The Queen and Rozencrants and Guildenstern, Hamlet burst out in ore and anger out among everyone and the mourners. Horatio confesses his love for Ophelia and Hamlet is enraged and disgusted as he believes that his love for Ophelia is much much stronger. Horatio gets to the extent of diving into the burial which seems Pathetic.

The King has a private word with Laertes. With the new found knowledge of Hamlets return he confides in Laertes and explains to him that he was the one that had slain his Father and that now is the time to get his revenge. He riles up Laertes by simply saying profound statements such as how he does not love his father and how Hamlet still lives, carelessly. To add on to the hate that is currently bottling up, Hamlets’ mother, the Queen brings the grim news of Ophelia’s death. The Queen ant agonizingly explains with every crumb the details of Ophelia’s death.

Laertes arrives at the castle with an angry mob that see him as the rightful King as they call him Lord. Charging the castle and calling the name of Claudius. The Present-King urgently tries to calm down Laertes and with the help of Gertrude, they both prove his innocence.

With the new-found news of Ophelia’s madness Gertrude does not want to get involved, However Horatio eventually convinces Gertrude that Ophelia’s insanity would bring unwanted attention. After a ballad from Ophelia about her dead father and she is seeming ver senile with twitches and fractured nods. Gertrude begs for Ophelia to stop singing her heart out and she simply replies with “Indeed, without an oath i’ll make it end soon t’ill end it soon” which may be foreshadowing events that will happen in the future. She is confronted by the King and Queen but to only be shutdown. And the only possible reason for her dramatic change in emotions would have to be her fathers death. Laertes is enraged and wants to confide in Claudius and prompt a riot.