Everything that happened, all the events before are leading up to this final act. My expectations to Act 5 couldn’t be greater, first of all there is a lot going on before this act, and second it’s been a long struggle for Hamlet, so I want to see if it was all worth the fight.
The final fight has arrived. Laertes and Hamlet are in an epic but formal fight, the one that will not only decide their fate, but the one of Denmark too. Hamlet is doing all of this to finally obtain peace within himself, “Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting/ That would not let me sleep. Me thought I lay/ Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.” (Act 5, Sc ii, 4-6) for he wants to avenge his fathers death, and show to the world all the bad things his uncle has done.
It’s only at the end of the fight that Laertes confesses the plot against Hamlet that “The King, the king is to blame” (351). Right after this is said, Hamlets rage explodes towards his uncle Claudius. He killed his father, and has now poisoned his mother when wanting to kill him, no wonder he is now against him.
It’s reasonable to believe the end to Hamlet isn’t fair, and I actually think it isn’t. But this is an obvious assumption starting from the fact that this is a tragedy, meaning it will not end well. But the end made me think more, maybe Hamlet wanted to seek revenge, and he finds this, then dies, but at least he did what he wanted the most. So it might not be a complete failure that Hamlet died, for he at least did what he wanted to do.
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