Hamlet act 5

Act 5

Scene 1

- Shakespeare introduces sacrifice in nonchalant way 

- clown done this so much that he is detached to burying people

- hamlet 30 years old

- "alas poor yorick! I knew him horatio: a fellow of infinite jest , of most excellent fancy"

- grandest among us be humble 

- hamlet lived Ophelia

- thinks laertes thinks he didn't and now he is talking out loud

- "the dog will have his day"

Scene 2 

- found guild and rose. Fear opened commission. Found scheme that guild and rose were going to him

- hamlet forging new commission

- Kill guild and rose

- hamlet says that their death is just karma since they would do the same thing to him

- hamlet feels bad for laertes because both lost father and sympathisizss with him

- hamlets assassin is ostric who is comedic so why out him as hamlets death maker?

- talks about hat and what to do with it. Gives himself away to hamlet pretty much

- hamlet mimicking ostric and makes horatio comment about it

- hamlet agrees to fencing match

- horatio is worried about hamlet and wants to tell the others that hamlet is sick but hamlet has short speech which acknowledges the fact that he knows he is going to die? And tells horatio to just let it be

- hamlet tells laertes he is victim to his own madness and keeps up the charade if being mad

- queen drinks poisoned wine

- hamlet gets scratched with postponed sword and has 30 min to live 

- hamlet takes laertes sword and fights laertes killing him

- queen falls and yells that she knows it was the poisoned cup that got her

- hamlet plunges sword in king and shoves poisoned wine down throat and kills king

- hamlet wants his story to be told and stops horatio from killing himself with hamlet. He doesn't want to be known as a murderer

- fortinbras becomes king and horatio gives speech in honor of hamlet and fallen men. Doesn't tell story with anyone as a hero but as in hamlets first soliloquy

- end with cannons that irritated Hamlet

- hamlet last words "so tell him, with the occurents more and less which have solicited the rest is silence"