James' Hamlet Scene Analysis

An Extraordinary Ending

In my opinion, the most interesting scene in the play is the last scene, when Hamlet fights with Laertes. The last scene is always the most important scene in a play because it has to give the ending of the play, and the quality of the play largely determined by the ending. So Hamlet's last scene has to conclude all the storyline in the play. This scene is memorable because all of the main characters, who are alive appear in this scene, and all the actions of the characters combine in the scene. For example, Hamlet wants to kill Claudius to revenge for the old King; Claudius wants to kill Hamlet to keep his crown; Laertes wants to kill Hamlet for Ophelia. All these setting come together at this scene and make it like a huge party, and this makes me, as an audience excited. More importantly, the ending scene concludes the play with emotions - sad, regrets, anger and many others. Hamlet feels sad and angers his own fate of being killed by the poisoned knife; Laertes regrets about his dishonor behaviors and the King was anger by losing the power, and the Queen was sad because of the King's poisoned wine. All the actions, thoughts, and emotions of the characters make the scene reach the maximum point of the play, then suddenly the all the characters die and the scene become silence. I like the way how Shakespeare ended the play, the raise, and drop of the plot fit with the story. It is an extraordinary ending that concluding the entire play as a tragedy, this is why the last scene in the most interesting scene to me.