Act 5

1.) I think the gravedigger does his riddles and song to help him not think of death as such a sad thing and to help him not be affected by the sadness of burring dead people all the time. His riddles and songs fit into the play because they all have to deal with death and soon everyone is going to die.


2.) Hamlet realizes that dieing is apart of life and it changes the way he looks at life in general. Yorik was a great and well loved friend to Hamlet. Hamlet's relationship with Yorik is similar to his with Ophelia's because he loved them both. It is different because Ophelia betrayed him and Yorik did not so he still had trust for him.

3.) Hamlet is thirty. We know this because he was born the same year king Hamlet defeated Fortinbras.

4.) This argument shows that Hamlet really did love Ophelia and Laertes is only acting so sad because he wants to make a dramatic appearance and make himself look good in front of the king and queen.

5.) Hamlet begins to realize that Claudius wants him killed so he puts his thoughts into action and has Rosencrantz and Guildenstern killed. He starts to change because he begins to think all the way through and for the better of himself and is wants people to pay for what they have done to him.

6.) His motives on killing Claudius change because he wants to kill him now not only for killing his father but because he married his mother, stole the throne from him, and Hamlet thinks he is going to keep causing problems. This is different from the first time he was going to kill him because he wanted to wait until he sinned again and now he wants to kill him soon before he did more harm to Hamlet's life.

7.) When Osric is talking to Hamlet he is trying to convince him how good of a person Laertes is. He says how is a nice man who is very good at being of the high social class. In this scene the concern is that Hamlet might be stronger than Laertes and has the strength to kill the king and Laertes.

8.) He defies agury because he is putting his life in the hands of fate and is letting it decide if he is going to die in the sword fight or die at another time.

9.) He is still resenting Hamlet because he can not forgive him for killing his father and sister because he wants to obtain his honor. He has already lost his sense of honor because he has a plan to beat Hamlet in sword fighting by cheating. All of the people getting revenge in this book are avenging for loved ones. Laertes is going to do what ever it takes to kill Hamlet because he killed his Polonius and Ophelia.

10.)Throughout the play Gertrude has been dependent on men and when she dies she is calling for Hamlet to see if he can do anything about it. Laertes says he has been killed because his plan backfired on him and he was the type of character that went through with things he just didn't always come up with a plan to follow. Claudius asks for protection and this reflects on his character because he never wanted to do his own dirty work and had others spy and do his work for him.

11.) In a way Hamlet could have won. He did all that he wanted to do in the story. He avenged for his father, killed Claudius and all the other people that were involved in trapping him. He did not become king but when he died he was honored like a king and was finally understood in the end.