Upon Hamlet’s return, he accepts the challenge but during the match however he and Laertes both end up getting stabbed by the sharpened fencing sword. Hamlet will then either die by the un-blunted tip of Laertes’s sword, or by the poisoned wine he will be offered following the fencing match. Claudius draws up a new plan for taking Hamlet’s life that consists of Ophelia’s brother, Laertes, will fight him in a fencing match. Later, Claudius learns that instead of coming to England Hamlet is now returning to Denmark. She now makes the fourth of Hamlet’s foes to die. Even though it is not clearly stated, the reader can make a pretty good guess to the fact that she has committed suicide. Meanwhile Ophelia, whom is acting as a mere pawn in all of this, is overcome with the feeling of sadness due to her father’s death, and has drowned. Now, the fates of two more of Hamlet’s enemies are sealed. The moment Hamlet learns of this plan, he falsifies new orders saying that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were to be killed instead of himself. Claudius’s end result for Hamlet if for him to die of beheading upon arriving in England. When Claudius learns of Polonius’s death, he begins devising his plan to get rid of Hamlet once and for all.
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