Act 5

1. The gravedigger sings of death after love, and the people get old, die, and are given to the land. This fits into the play because Hamlet and Ophelia had love but it had to end because of her death. And earlier in the play the talk about how a king dies, worms eat his body, fish eat the worms, and the people eat the fish. The circle of life.
2. When Hamlet speaks to Yorik’s skull it shows that he is legitimately sad, he thought very highly of Yorik. With Hamlet’s fathers death, Hamlet just moped around mourning, dressed in black, then looking for revenge. His father’s death was of lesser meaning to him because he become consumed with trying to avenge him. With Ophelia Hamlet seems to love her at times, and he seems to not care at all about her at other times. With Yorik, his feelings are not mixed.
3. Hamlet is thirty years old because he asked the gravedigger how long he’d been grave-digging and he said “It was that very day that young Hamlet was born” “I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years.”
4. This argument sets up the sword fight scene between Hamlet and Laertes, which is when Hamlet finally takes some action.
5. It shows his ability to go through with his plans, leading the way to his plan to eventually kill Claudius. It shows that his anger is growing and he doesn’t care what he has to do to get revenge. “They are not near my conscience.” He doesn’t feel any sorrow for their deaths or being the cause of their deaths because he has accepted the fact that no one can be trusted.
6. Hamlet has become consumed with the idea of just murdering Claudius. It was at first to avenge his fathers murder, and that only. Hamlet then seems to forget that, he wants to kill Claudius now because he married his mother, and stepped between Hamlet and the throne.
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9. Laertes’s reason to kill Hamelt is to keep his honor, he has already lost because he had to trick Hamlet, and cheat by using poison to kill him. He did not fight in an honorable way, so the idea of fighting to keep his honor is contradicting.
10. Gertrude calls out to her son as she dies because she is dependant upon men. The King calls out to everyone in the castle, this shows that he is weak, he cannot fight his own battles, throughout the play he was having people do everything for him. He only takes, and uses. Laertes asks for forgiveness before he dies.
11. Fortinbras wins; he did not die, go insane or have a loved one killed. He gets to avenge his father and take over Denmark.