trike his uncle, but he stopped. Something made him pause. He couldn’t go through with it. After that happened death loomed over Hamlet’s dismal life. First to die was Polonius, then his daughter. Leartes came home to find his father dead. Then later he learned his sister drowned in the lake. Both Leartes and Hamlet mourn Ophelia’s death. They take it extremely hard. Hamlet then admitted his true feelings for Ophelia. He said, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum.” (V, I, 240) Hamlet for once was completely honest with his feelings for Ophelia, only if he could have told her before it was too late. Now he has nothing.Leartes is so upset about the lost of his father and his sister he challenges Hamlet to a dual. The king conspires with Leartes to poison Hamlet by tainting the blade of Leartes sword. Hamlet and Leartes exchange blows and both get cut. The queen toasts Hamlet and takes a drink of her son’s drink. “The drink, the drink! I am poisoned.” (V, ii, 283) The queen falls down dead. Leartes stabs Hamlet and informs him that he too has been poisoned and he would join his mother soon. Hamlet takes Leartes sword and stabs him with it. Before he dies Leartes forgives Hamlet for everything. He now realized the king was the one to blame. Hamlet looked at his uncle and finishes the job he should have done long before. Hamlet and the king both die leaving the kingdom to Fortinbras.Poor Hamlet’s disillusioned world caused so much pain and suffering. I can understand how he felt for he truly loved his father. When his father died his world crashed around him. But most people can pull themselves out of it. He wanted so badly for his father to come back to him he was blinded. He could not see the truth. He would believe anything. When he did he caused the ones he loved to lose their places in his l...
