Hamlet
All novels have a literary device know as a climax in them. A climax is the point in a book which is the peak of the story and where everything after it leads to the conclusion of the novel. In the play, "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare, three things are said to be this turning point. The play-within-a-play, the prayer scene, and the scene in Gertrude's room are usually picked as these three turning points. Although each of these serves its purpose in making the conclusion of the story that much more inevitable, the one that does the best job of accomplishing this goal is the prayer scene. Although the prayer scene is less than four pages long and contains only 99 lines of dialogue, it accomplishes more in terms of setting up the ending of the play than any other scene does. It is clear that tension between Claudius and Hamlet is rising. Hamlet continues with his antic disposition, which further aggravates Claudius. Things can not stay the way they are and with this Claudius decides to send Hamlet to England. He does this because he fears that Hamlet's madness will continue and eventually escalate into something much larger than what it already is. (82) "I like him not, nor stands it safe with us to let his madness ran
The next plan which will not go smoothly will be a plan that the one and only pompous ass himself, Polonius, has thought up. His plan is to hide behind an arras, or tapestry, in Gertrude's room while Gertrude and Hamlet talk. (83) "My lord, he's going to his mother's closet. Behind the arras I'll convey myself to hear the process." Polonius believes that Hamlet's madness is due to love sickness for Ophelia, which is not 100% the case. Polonius is not the brightest bulb on the tree and will not give up on his idea. Claudius allows him to do this in hopes of reaching a conclusion about the method behind Hamlet's madness. After only four pages and 99 lines of dialogue the climax has been given and the conclusion is clear from the prayer scene. The story stands at this. Claudius has just admitted to killing King Hamlet and is sending Hamlet to England to get him out of sight. All the while you have an enraged Hamlet who is just looking for any safe situation to kill Claudius off now that he has "pumped" himself up to do so. Finally you have Polonius, who has made the not so smart decision of going to spy on Hamlet, right after Hamlet has just gained his new found sense of bloodlust. This presents the conclusion of the play very clearly. With most Shakespeare plays, what can go wrong, does go wrong. The story of Hamlet is no different and follows this pattern
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Approximate Word count = 928
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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