Why does the play hamlet end with such bloodshed?

Answer 1

That's the way the story goes. The Hamlet story was well-known before Shakespeare got hold of it, and it was a great one as an example of revenge tragedy, which generally end up with a pile of bleeding corpses at the end (compare Kyd's Spanish Tragedy and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus). Of course, Shakespeare wrote only those two revenge tragedies, and on the other hand wrote piles of comedies: eighteen of his thirty-eight plays, or nearly half, were comedies and ended with a bunch of people getting married as opposed to dying.

Answer 2

I don't know, that's a stupid question but i love how the story ends its a great way to keep people hooked and keep thinking about his story even after your done reading

Answer 3

Hamlet is a tragedy and that is what happens in a tragedy

Answer 4

many of Shakespeare's plays end in death and mayhem, that is the way he wrote. he wrote only a few comedies like Much Ado about Nothing, and a Midsummer's night Dream