Act 5, Scene 2 Flashcards
What happens
Hamlet reveals he killed R and G
Fencing occurs
Laertes wants revenge
Hamlet stabbed by poisoned sword / so is laertes
Gertrude drinks poisoned wine and forces calfuised o drink
Hortaup needs to stay alive to tell fortinbras what’s happened - fortinbras king
Significance
Anticipated violence occurs
Duel symbolises battle between gooddness and corruption
Climax
Hamlets changed view of world
Take control
Stops hesitating
Gives into fate
He will be damned if he doesn’t kill Claudius
Takes ownership of revenge - not for ghost
Punishment for Claudius
Isolated
All his flatters dress
Deserves fate - justice
Catharsis
Gertrude death
Undeserved - She was innocent / naive
Moral crime but not illegal
She may have known wine was poisoned and drank it to save son - ham over Claud
Rosen and Gs death
Deaths announced here
Raise Qs about hamlets morals - they did betray hamlet but only did what king told them so they were doomed either way
He didn’t then to pray so they went to hell - harsh
Laertes death
Transitional revenge hero he gets justice by killing hamlet but he also dies
Wasn’t destvered A’s was only avenging father’s death
But deserved as he was planning on killing ham - he deliberately kills ham
“Justyly killed with own treachery” his vengeance isn’t honourable so died
Hamlets death
Deserved - kills P and takes no responsibility / nor remorseful
Harshly kills R and G
Laertes gorgives hamlet sayinf hamlet isn’t repsonsible for sitsion
Hamlet suffers all way through - gains enough proof
Fortinbras death
Becomes king - not perfect but he survives and regains his lost lands because he can think and act
Best candidate for throne
Orders ham has soldiers burial
God
Hamlets says god will revenge / gods justice
When he stops actively looking for revenge - revenge taken
