Because I have finished act four and because I want to get the post due Wednesday out of the way and because I don't have to start reading act five until Thursday and because my character is dead I am going to blog about my predictions for the final act. Putting aside all that i know about the play, here's what I think will go down.
The king and Laertes will call hamlet to a grand hall in order to carry out their plan. Hamlet, the vengeful guy he is, will bring his sword so that he can kill the king. Hamlet, while talking with the king, will start alluding to killing his uncle in a dramatic irony sort of way (because that's what he does). He will swing at the king and miss (because that's how Shakespeare and tragedies work: the tragic hero never accomplishes his task directly). Laertes will swoop in and duel with hamlet. Meanwhile Horatio, who has been watching all along will come in and stab the king in the chest (because he's a good friend) the dying king will kill Horatio for a dose of irony. But, even more ironically, hamlet won't see this. Keep in mind, there will be eloquent conversation throughout all of this. Whole dueling, hamlet and Laertes' swords will dramatically fly away and that will switch swords. Then, hamlet will scratch Laertes with the sword that he himself poisoned (because Shakespeare loves irony and everybody has to die for this to be a true tragedy). Oh yeah, and before Laertes dies the captain guy will come in, see the dead king and be like "holy crap, that means we have the kingdom, I'm going to take his crown" but then hamlet will walk in and see all of these dead people and be sad. And then he's going to say "oh no you don't" and kill the captain and take the crown, which I think he wanted the whole time. He will then see the poison and be thirsty, drink it, and die ironically. Then Gertrude will walk in, see everybody dead, and pick up the kings sword and kill herself. This was based on the notion that shakespeare loves irony, everybody dies, and the setup provided in act four, hope this was long enough :)
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