In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, many themes are explored throughout the play. Themes such as deception, madness, death, and revenge were all part of the play. Shakespeare's plays often deal with the issue of death, which is usually expressed in a very dramatic manner and generally includes the death of the main character. Shakespeare conveys the idea of life as a never-ending cycle of death and retribution throughout the entire play. Shakespeare introduces the concept of death with the passing of King Hamlet, which leads Hamlet to seek vengeance through his numerous soliloquies that examine death from a variety of perspectives and ultimately result in a dramatic conclusion. Shakespeare displays death through the suicide of Ophelia, Hamlet’s thoughts and eventual suicide, and the murder of King Hamlet and Polonius. He also shows death by the whole act with the fencing match with Laertes. Laertes ends up killing himself from his ideas, and Gertrude also kills herself by trying to protect her son by drinking and knowing the poison. This reveals to us the theme of death when Gertrude announces Ophelia was drowned she says "So full of artless …show more content…
Ophelia then drowns herself in the pond nearby announced by Gertrude. “One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow: your sister’s drown’d, Laertes,” (IIII. 7). Gertrude interrupts Laertes and Claudius when they are trying to figure out how they are going to try to kill Hamlet. They plan on doing a sword fight but Laertes’ sword will be poisoned and sharpened. “I will do't: And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword,” (IIII.7). They also have an alternative plan if the sword doesn’t work, they are going to get him tired enough that he will want water and then give him poison to drink. After Laertes hears his sister has died; he gets even more mad at Hamlet and wants to kill him even more. So they go through with the sword