Death

William Shakespeare plays the dance of death throughout the play very well in Hamlet. Some can infer that death is just part of the circle of life, and people die all of the time.

It all started when Claudius wanted reign and decided to poison his brother, Hamlet. I, personally, believe that he shouldn't have died to begin with. He was a good king, and pleased his people. But, Claudius was jealous of his brother and wanted everything that he had. Claudius didn't know that once you strike up that game of an eye for an eye, death can come towards you in any time. You just don't expect it. The evidence that we get that king Hamlet is dead, is when the ghost of Hamlet pays a visit with young Hamlet and tells him the story of his death. Telling your son to avenge him is dangerous, too. You can make plenty mistakes when you're full of rage and want to gain revenge on your father's death. Hamlet becomes mad and plays along with people about his madness. He decides to put it off like a coward, and horses around for quite some time, until he conducts a mistake in trying to murder Claudius; he murders Polonius. Polonius probably did have it coming to him, though, because he was somewhat crude to other people. Of course, after his death, his daughter Ophelia goes mad as well and become a psycho. She later drowns herself in a river, in which we do not know if it was purpose suicide or if she fell in the river. Towards the end, Laertes and Claudius come up a plan to avenge Laertes' father's death. Some poison should do it; but their plans run haywire. The poisoned barb hits Hamlet, but also hits Laertes. Oops. First, Gertrude is to fall because she drank the poisoned cup, instead of her son Hamlet because he chose not to drink yet. Claudius gets stabbed by Hamlet by the poisoned sword, and forces him to drink the poisoned wine. Then, full of rage, he finishes off Laertes, but in the end, Hamlet slowly falls to his death. The big question though is this: Did they all deserve to die? Possibly, for their actions they placed within the play. Gertrude slept with her husbands brother in a heartbeat after his death, which pissed off Hamlet. Claudius was a lying jerk to everyone, even to his newly wedded wife. Laertes, on the other hand, wasn't so bad, because he, too, as lost his father, very much so like Hamlet. Polonius wasn't the nicest person of them all, but he was a good father. Hamlet, though, he was pretty crazy. At first, he played the role of being mad, but madness did corrupt him. He put it off and created chaos throughout the kingdom. He is mainly to blame; but they all wouldn't have died if Claudius didn't poison his brother, to begin with.