Hamlet Deaths

Hamlet is an interesting play. And the first two people to die in the play are the two people that might as well be the most harmless characters in the play. These two characters are Ophelia and Polonius. Polonius had died by Hamlets hand. This was because he had hid in Gertrude’s room and Hamlet had been paranoid. Hamlet then proceeds to stab Polonius. Though it was while Polonius was hiding, and Hamlet had thought it was the king. Although Ophelia’s death had been worse than what had happened to her father Polonius. What the Queen, Gertrude, had said about her death was that she was sitting on a branch and had fell off of the branch into water and she had not tried to save herself by swimming away, or up for that matter. These two deaths were a tragedy, but Ophelia went crazy right before she had “killed herself”. Though these are not the only deaths that are going to happen within this play they are the deaths that set the tone for later on in the play. Ophelia’s death probably would not have happened if Polonius was not dead. She only went crazy because of her death. These deaths though tragic they are needed for the play.