Polonius' death leads to that of Ophelia when she falls into a stream while picking flowers. It is thought that the melancholy and anguish of her father's death had everything to do with it. Then comes the burial of Ophelia, which is when Laertes and Hamlet fight as Hamlet feels that Laertes is not truly sorry for Ophelia's death as Hamlet says, "even Forty thousand brothers " can't make up the love he had for Ophelia. It is after this that Laertes joins Claudius, and schemes to kill Hamlet by poisoning the foil they plan to use in a joust between Hamlet and Laertes.
The appearance of the two clowns 'in Act 5 Scene I provide a respite to the intense and somber mood so that the audience is put at ease before the dreaded climax.
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At the start of the play, from Act 2 till the end of Act 3, Hamlet's intention was to segregate himself from the rest of the court; instead it brought him more awareness. In his quest to kill Claudius, he gets side tracked and unintentionally takes the life of Polonious. "I took thee for thy better"-this is when Hamlet was speaking to his mother. As Hamlet was intimidating his mother, she cnied in fear for help. Polomious, who was eavesdropping on their conversation came to her rescue and Hamlet, believing him to be the king, killed him.
The plot of the story is alienated into three stages initially, Hamlet had to prove that what the ghost was saying was true, so he sets up a play, which he calls, "The Mousetrap". The second stage is after the guilt was confirmned, he could have killed his uncle, but doesn't his first chance is while Claudius prays, but Hamlet believes that killig him then would allow him admittance to heaven. "A villain kills myfather, and for that I, his sole son, do this same villain send to heaven". The third stage is when he gets side tracked as he inadvertently kills Polonious.
Hamlet follows the regular convention of typical Elizabethan revenge tragedies very closely.
