Hamlet Ending

All throughout watching the film in class, I couldn't stop laughing. I know that it is difficult to act out the play with the long dialogue that makes the risen emotions deflate as soon as they are formed. However, the thing that really made me laugh was the ''awkwardness' of everyone's surprised reactions and death. Although the memory is becoming a bit murky, I thought the over-dramatization of Brannagh's  version made the ending very hard to respect. Hamlet starts of the conversation with Laertes very sincerely with a respect for his family. However, that whole speech seems to be a facade through the movie portrayal when he drops the sincerity emotion. Truthfully, I don't really know what to make of the ending because I just became tired of Hamlet in general due to Hamlet's frustrating characteristic. The domino effect of killing of Gertrude, Laertes, Claudius, and Hamlet (sorry to say) is so pathetic. It just proves the pointlessness of everything in all directions. What was the point of Hamlet becoming a fool, intellectual, artist, etc. if he was just going to end up dying. But in a way, I guess everyone got what they deserved. Claudius died because he committed a premeditated murder, treason, incest, and for scheming to kill Hamlet. Gertrude ended up unknowingly 'sacrificing' herself for her son because she wasn't able to do that ever since she decided to marry Claudius (if we take the side that she is innocent, that is). For Laertes, I don't think he would have fared well if he didn't die because his whole family was dead due to Hamlet, so he needed to rest in peace after poisoning Hamlet. Lastly, Hamlet 'tragically'  dies because he killed Polonius, unintentionally drove Ophelia to death, and for judging everyone so critically because the Bible does say not to judge others. I am just glad to be done with this play because as interesting as it was in the beginning, the feeling of the play dragging on and on and on really becoming an unnecessarily tiresome play. I guess, to apply to economic terms, it's like the diminishing marginal utility, how obtaining a good decreases the satisfaction one good after another. Oh, one thing I want to add is that the concept of poison is so big in this play and an interesting thing I noticed was that in Invisible Man, the narrator talks about poison many times after the first half of the book. In the book it says, "You will. There's lots of poison around" (393), This is after when Brother Tarp tells the narrator about his 19 years in prison. Brother Wrestrum pops in out of no where and starts warning the narrator, and I thought the inclusion of this quote was interesting. There a lot of weird things with the Brotherhood and his comment about the poison foreshadowed what he did to the narrator, accusing him of disloyalty.