Losing His Father's Death

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is based around the tragedy of everyone that becomes

involved with Hamlet. It seems that no matter whoever gets involved with Hamlet after he finds

out about the truth behind his father’s death, they end up losing their lives. One death eventually

ends up leading to another; it’s a chain reaction and no one can really avoid it. There are plenty

of innocent people that lose their lives, but there are also people who aren’t so innocent that lose

their lives as well. No matter what the situation is, or who the person is, there is no way to avoid

not dying.

It all begins when Hamlet discovers that his father was murdered by his own brother. He

discovered Claudius was the one behind the murder when his fathers’

He instantly realizes he took the life of the wrong person, and

bids him farewell and calls him an “intruding fool”.

After the death of Polonius, the one to take it the hardest is of course his daughter

Ophelia. Since she is involved, she’s the next one to lose her life. Ophelia was already having it

pretty hard because of Hamlet telling her he no longer loved her. It was heart breaking to her

that Hamlet no longer had feelings for her. She was already taking all of that pretty hard, and

then adding on her father’s death didn’t help her at all. Not being able to handle anything

anymore, she takes her own life. There were a few witnesses that saw how Ophelia dies; they try

to say she was just playing around a lake and “accidently” drowned. But, in reality it was

Claudius finally catches on and realizes that Hamlet is on to him, and decides that it

would be best to get rid of him. It wouldn’t be beneficial for him to have Hamlet around when

he know that he killed his father, who’s also his own brother. Claudius is pretty much using a

murder to cover up another one. His plan to get rid of Hamlet seems to be logical and

unsuspicious, at first. Once Hamlet finally reveals where Polonius’s body is located, Claudius

tells Hamlet it would be best for him to leave to England. His intentions weren’t to be nice and

help Hamlet at all. He makes sure that Hamlet leaves for England by sending Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern with him. Claudius makes sure to contact the King of England and tells him do his

duty work. The King of England is now in charge of making sure Hamlet gets killed. The only

bad thing about the plan is that Hamlet eventually realizes what is going on and completely turns

the table for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and of course Claudius. After Hamlet realizes that

he was sent to England to be killed he quickly escapes and leaves Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

to die. They are left to pay the price, and that’s the last of them after that