Most endings of a story, book, or movie all have a similar ending. It’s cliche when one dies, they all die, but when there is a strategy behind it, thats what makes it a good ending. In the ending of Hamlet all of the characters, or actors in the movie die in a strategic way that makes for a good ending. In Act V, scene II while Hamlet and Claudius are sword fighting Hamlet seems to win quite easily. The strategy behind letting Hamlet win was all for show. When Claudius offers Hamlet the poisoned goblet of wine, but Hamlet declines and keeps fighting. Once Hamlet holds the wine the queen intervenes, takes the wine, toast Hamlet, and drinks the wine, knowing through her facial expression in the movie, and the way the lines are read in the play, that she was going to be poisoned. Throughout the end of this last scene everyone dies in a fashioned order in a way that they are able to keep the play going while getting in their last words. When Hamlet is cut with the poisoned blade first he stays alive longer than Claudius who is cut second. The king too is also poisoned and dies before Hamlet dies himself.

Even though Hamlet dies last, it makes sense for him to die last. Each one of the characters die in an order that tell their own story, Hamlets mothers (The Queen) who feels like she went against Hamlet when Hamlets father died, and she moved on so quickly with Hamlets uncle. Hamlets uncle and Claudius who act out against Hamlet and try to poison him then die next. Than Hamlet who is able to show how he was wronged in the last few minutes of his life, leaving Horatio to explain Hamlets story later on.

People don’t often think of the storyline they just read or watch from start to finish and when everyone dies, everyone dies, but if you look deeper in to the meaning you can see why the author chose to act it out this way. This helps the play to make sense and to show the importance of each character.