Act 5 Of Hamlet Essay

The play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare is a play about death and dying. From the very first act all the way until the last scene of the play there is something to do with death or dying. If you have studied any of Shakespeare’s plays in the past you might already know that he enjoyed writing about death, usually the death of everyone involved. We start with the ghost of the old King of Denmark King Hamlet; the ghost is walking on the battlements most nights. It isn’t until Hamlet comes into the picture that we find out the real reason for the ghost to be there, he was murdered and wants revenge for his death. The theme of revenge in this play opens the doors to all of the deaths that will soon come to all of the major characters in

We all know that death comes, we have never met someone who has escaped the grasp of deaths hands, but still some of us fear the moment when we leave this earth. We drive by cemeteries every day, knowing that on a certain day one of those plots of land will be for us, we just don’t know when. Ever since the first organism of life was created on this planet things have died, we know this, and we also know all too well of peoples we loved deaths. Some of us fear that the sun is going to raise everyday because they know that on that day they could die, we are never ready to die when we do. If you were to be able to ask anyone who has already dies and asked them if they thought they were done living I can assure you the answer would be no they were not. At no point are we ever done living, even if we take our own lives. In the play Hamlet himself says that if death is there to take him then it shall happen because there is nothing he can do to stop it. We see this in Act Five Scene Two Lines 212-215; “If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves, knows aught, what is’t to leave betimes?” Hamlet tells his best friend that the only way someone is to truly know when they are going to leave this world is if they take their own life, only to be damned in the act. This is something that we all know too well, if you believe in a God which I do, you know that when he is ready for you to come and join him he will simple take you, no questions asked. Sometimes it seems that our loved ones were taken at the worst times, but still it is the act of God and he does in fact know best for