Rosencrantz And Guildenstern In Hamlet

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a tragedy that leaves the audience feeling many different emotions. The story deals with everyone betraying each other and having many conflicts among them. Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Polonius, Osric, and Laertes are all main characters that will play a big part in the story. The story takes place in a royal castle where the tragedy takes place. The point i'm trying to prove is that it doesn't matter how long you’ve known people or who or what they are to you because at the end they will always end up back stabbing you.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are both childhood friends of Hamlet who have always been inseparable. They get hired to spy on Hamlet to find out why he has been acting so different. After they
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He wanted revenge and wanted to do to Hamlet what he did to Polonius. After a while, Hamlet agrees to the match with Laertes but not before the King and Queen ask him to apologize. “Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep” (v,ii,5). When they begin the match Hamlet feels confident in himself because he had been practicing. As they are fighting Laertes is going to use the opportunity to kill Hamlet with his his poisonous sword. Before the fight is over Laertes cuts Hamlet with his sword, as they struggle they switch swords and Hamlet wounds Laertes with his poisonous swords as …show more content…
She takes her last moments as a chance to tell them that she was poisoned by the wine they were trying to offer to Hamlet. “No, no! the drink, the drink! O my dear Hamlet!” (v,ii,328). When Hamlet finds out he was striked with the poisonous sword, out of anger he wounds Laertes with it as well. They both use their last words to ask for forgiveness in hope that it will get them into heaven because they have apologised for their wrongdoings. Everyone ends up dead with the poison as someone comes to inform them that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern had been killed. Before Hamlet dies he lets them know that he had nothing to do with everything that was going on but rather it was his jealous

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