ndsinflicted by Laertes during their duel. "The point envenomed too! Thenvenom, to thy work…Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, drink offthis potion,-is thy union here? Follow my mother." This left the Kingdead, and his father's death avenged.The lack of thought used in exacting the revenge led to the deaths of bothLaertes and Hamlet. Laertes planned with Claudius to kill Hamlet with thepoisoned tipped sword, but they had not thought that the sword might beused against them. With Laertes believing the King's accusations thatHamlet had murdered his father, he was in a blind rage, and would notlisten to Hamlet's explanation and apology. "I am satisfied in nature…tomy revenge…I stand aloof…and will no reconcilement…But till that time, I doreceive your offer'd love like love, and will not wrong it.". He fightsHamlet, and wounds him once with the poisoned tipped sword; butunfortunately, their swords are switched, and Hamlet wounds Laertes withthe sword. That is the wound by which Laertes dies. Hamlet had manychances to kill his uncle, but his rage outweighed his intelligence; and hechose to wait until the lord could see no good in Claudius, and then strikehim down into a world of eternal damnation. "Now might I do it pat, now heis praying;…A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, dothis same villain send to heaven." Hamlet waits until he can kill hisuncle while he is performing a sin, unfortunately for Hamlet, the sin isthe poisoning of his own son in law. Hamlet dies of his poisoned wound. Young Fortinbras regains his fathers land, without use of violence, ordeath to himself. Hamlet names him new ruler of Denmark before he dies,and Fortinbras regains all of his father's lost land, and becomes King ofDenmark.Since the Heads of the three major families were each murdered, the eldestsons of these families swore vengeance, and two of the three sons diedwhile exacting ...
