So, I finally completed Hamlet and the ending wasn't quite how I imagined everything to unfold. It was very dramatic. In these final scenes of Hamlet, Laertes and Hamlet returns back to Denmark. Laertes and Claudius dialogue and plan on how to take revenge on Hamlet. Everyone finds out that Ophelia had committed suicide. Laertes is far more determined to take revenge on Hamlet. Hamlet has an encounter with the grave digger and eventually finds out that Ophelia is dead. Hamlet and Laertes battle during the ceremony for Ophelia at the graveyard. Hamlet apologizes for all he had done, but Laertes proposes a fight. During the fight, the poisoned cup that was meant to kill Hamlet backfires. Gertrude drinks from the cup and dies. Laertes wounds Hamlet with a poisoned sword. They scuffle and Hamlet ends up with Laertes’ poisoned sword. He wounds Laertes with it. Laertes reveals the truth about the cup and the sword that they had both been wounded by. Hamlet then takes the envenomed sword and wounds Claudius, then forces him to drink from the poisoned cup. Claudius dies. Laertes asks Hamlet’s forgiveness and then also dies. Before Hamlet dies he asks Horatio to explain this bloody spectacle to the confused ones. Horatio, on the contrary, wishes to die with his friend, but Hamlet convinces him to live a while and clear his name. Hamlet declares that Fortinbras should become King of Denmark. As you are probably think as well; what a mysterious, ambiguous, and controversial end this was. Hamlet was a great read for me. There are various themes and lessons in Hamlet that hopefully I'll discuss in one of my blog posts in the coming weeks.
Let me know what you think of Hamlet in the comments and if you haven’t read Hamlet, you should give it a read.
Until next time my friends!!
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