When Polonius dies tragically after being killed by her daughter’s lover, Hamlet, it leaves a lasting impact on the main characters and the audience. Polonius’s death is a tragedy since his innocent family becomes involved in schemes of Claudius and Hamlet and these actions of their own and the royalty resulted in their downfall, which was death. Although Hamlet did not intentionally kill Polonius, he considers Polonius as a deceiving fool that dared to eavesdrop on his conversation with his mother. He does not regret his death until his lover Ophelia dies, and when his family and most of his friends die. Hamlet has committed the very crime which he was seeking to punish, that the son of a murdered father has himself murdered a father, which
