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Laertes cuts Hamlet by his poisined sowrd, but Hamlet takes the sowrd and kills lartes by it after Laertes confesses that King Claudius wanted that to happen and he is also the one that poisined the cup (that Gurtrude drank from and died). Hamlet then rushes towards the king, making him drink from the poisined cup and by the poisined sowrd.
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What happens to the king Hamlet laertes and the queen?
they all die
Why did hamlet kill laertes?
Because he and King Claudius planned it...they put poison on the end of the sword so that when Laertes stabs Hamlet, Hamlet dies. The motive also has to do with the fact that Laertes is avenging his father's (Polonius's) death, whom was killed by Hamlet.
Who is dead on stage at the end of the play hamlet?
Well, a lot of people: Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, and Laertes.
How many tricks and poisons does it take to kill Hamlet?
Laertes had planned to kill Hamlet by fencing with him with a real pointed sword, not a harmless one with a button on the end. He has also poisoned the end of the sword. The idea is that Laertes is a better swordsman and will be able to skewer Hamlet with the poisoned rapier. Unfortunately for him, Hamlet is actually the better swordsman. It looks like Laertes is never going to touch him within the context of a duel. Thus Laertes abandons the polite conventions of duelling, and with the line "Have at you now!" attacks Hamlet in earnest. This does enable him to wound Hamlet, but in the scramble Hamlet gets hold of the pointy rapier and fatally wounds Laertes as well. Some productions show Laertes actually stabbing Hamlet in the back, but the above is more consistent with the text.
What act in the play hamlet laertes poison's prince hamlet with a poison sword?
The fifth. That's also the last. The end of the play is when massive death occurs.
What does laretes ask of king Claudius?
Laertes asks Hamlet to forgive him for killing him. In exchange, he offers to forgive Hamlet for killing him (and perhaps also his father and sister.) This may be just so he can die in peace or it may have some bearing on where the two end up in the afterlife.
Who lost their father in hamlet?
Hamlet was at school at Wittenberg, a famous college in Germany. Wittenberg is where the Protestant Reformation started, and that's probably the association we're supposed to make. He returned to Elsinore for the funeral.
What Shakespeare play had a sword fight in it?
Hamlet fought against Laertes, the brother of Ophelia and the son of Polonius. He was looking to kill Hamlet because of the deaths of Ophelia and Polonius. So, with Claudius, he plotted to have a fence match between the two of them.
Where do Hamlet and laertes fight?
When Hamlet accepts the invitation to a fencing match with Laertes, he says to Osric: 173 Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his 174 majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me. 175 Let the foils be brought, (Act 5, Scene 2, lines 173-175) The "hall" mentioned by Hamlet would not be a hallway, but the great hall of the castle, where all of the court assembles for public events.
Does Claudius plan to have Hamlet killed in a duel with Laertes?
Laertes plans on killing Hamlet by challenging him to a duel. Laertes will have a sharper blade than needed, and this blade will have posion on it, so if Hamlet gets cut during the battle, he will die. If Laertes fails, King Claudius will posion Hamlet at dinner following the duel.
What is hamlet about?
A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country.
What does ophelia give to laertes?
In Act 1 Scene 3 of Hamlet, both Laertes and Polonius advise Ophelia to stop seeing Hamlet, in their own ways. Laertes, as Ophelia's brother, gives the explanation that Hamlet, as heir to the throne of Denmark, must ultimately do what benefits the country. That means that though he may love Ophelia now, he will never be able to marry her because she is not of royal blood so it would not reflect well on the country, and because Denmark must come first, their relationship is doomed to end. Laertes says that Hamlet's affections for Ophelia are essentially flirtation and are going nowhere. (Of course he is dead wrong about Ophelia's chances of marrying Hamlet. At her funeral Gertrude says "I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife.") Polonius, Ophelia's father, gives the same advice for a different reason. He basically says that Hamlet is a young guy and offers her affection because he wants her, not because he loves her. He advises that Ophelia should stop seeing Hamlet because what she thinks is love is simply lust.
