Denmark Massacre
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ACT5, SCENE2
In this scene, the main characters die, conformation is brought on the death and soon to be deaths of Laertes and both Hamlets. Everyone is poisoned. After everyone dies Fortinbras enters. He is told by Horatio what happened starting with Hamlet Sr.'s death. He spares Horatio and right there and then essentially crowns himself King of Norway and Denmark.This is ironic because except for Ophelia and Polonius every main character dies by taking the same poison in one form or another. Laertes and Hamlet are poisoned by the same sword. Gertrude and Claudius drink the poison and Hamlet Sr. has the poison poured down his ear.
This is a main point of the play because every immoral or illegal wrong is brought out into the open. The Massacre of Denmark is the climax of the play. With this scene being the climax of the play every loose end is tied up beautifully in these last minutes. Hamlet's and Claudius's wrongs being the focus of what the audience sees and learns. What would have made this scene greater would be if Gertrude is alive to hear what happened from the beginning as Fortinbras is to.
With out Hamlet and Claudius this play would be drastically different. I probably would be a Cinderella tale with Hamlet and Ophelia marrying instead of a tragedy.
In this scene, the main characters die, conformation is brought on the death and soon to be deaths of Laertes and both Hamlets. Everyone is poisoned. After everyone dies Fortinbras enters. He is told by Horatio what happened starting with Hamlet Sr.'s death. He spares Horatio and right there and then essentially crowns himself King of Norway and Denmark.This is ironic because except for Ophelia and Polonius every main character dies by taking the same poison in one form or another. Laertes and Hamlet are poisoned by the same sword. Gertrude and Claudius drink the poison and Hamlet Sr. has the poison poured down his ear.
This is a main point of the play because every immoral or illegal wrong is brought out into the open. The Massacre of Denmark is the climax of the play. With this scene being the climax of the play every loose end is tied up beautifully in these last minutes. Hamlet's and Claudius's wrongs being the focus of what the audience sees and learns. What would have made this scene greater would be if Gertrude is alive to hear what happened from the beginning as Fortinbras is to.
With out Hamlet and Claudius this play would be drastically different. I probably would be a Cinderella tale with Hamlet and Ophelia marrying instead of a tragedy.