Summary:
In scene 1 opens with two gravediggers preparing the grave for Ophelia and thay are talking about if she really deserves a Christain funeral. Then Hamlet and Horatio show up and Hamlet goes to talk to one of the men because they are singing while they dig, he finds this extremely unappropriate. When they are talking the man starts talking about Hamlet, not knowing that it is he who he's talking to. Then the king, queen, and Laertes show up; when Laertes dives into the grave Hamlet comes forward and they start fighting because no one believes that Hamlet really loved Ophelia.
In scene 2 we find out that Hamlet opened the letter from the king that said Hamlet was to be killed immediately. After he read it he wrote a new one to be delievered. Then a messenger Osric shows up to tell Hamlet about a bet and in the process praise Laertes. Hamlet accepts the bet, but both Hamlet and Laertes are wounded with poison on the sword and the queen is poisoned with a drink meant for Hamlet. Once Hamlet figures out whats going on he forces the king to drink, and he also dies. So Colonius, Gertrude, Hamlet, and Laertes all die and Horatio is left to tell the story.
Questions:
Yes, Hamlet did love Ophelia.
Yes, the Queen did know.
Ophelia kills herself because she has great greif over everything in her life. She can't have a proper burial because her death was suspicious and could have been suicide.
Hamlet is mad indeed and not pretending.
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