Commentary
- Act V
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Scene
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Incestuous desire is shown where Ophelia is dead in her grave and Laertes jumps in her grave to hold her in his arms one more time, it seems really fake and like he's just putting on a show especially to hamlet when he sees this comes out and shows and tells of his great true love for Ophelia. Hamlet is obsessed with death so much a hung out in a graveyard upon the arrival from sea. That day happen to be the day Ophelia died; and was deeply saddened for his love was dead along with his father. He killed Polonius when talking to his mother about his state of being. Hamlet wants to avenge his father's death by killing Claudius, who sent hamlet to England to be killed but accidentally ended up killing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Laertes wants to kill hamlet for killing his father Polonius. Hamlet is also talks about the Darkness and the supernatural all in the play he talks about the ghost of his father which shoes the spiritual part of death, yet he does not believe in superstitions. He talked passionately about the skulls and how he knew Yorick so well when he was young and what a great person he was and what he used to play with the late jester tells what physically happens after death. After a great life how everyone just turns into dust even great rulers could turn into dirt and the dirt used for plugging up holes. Scene
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