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How did your character affect the scene?
Feelings about Hamlet
Character Relations
When Laertes enters in the scene the mood changes to a revengeful and angry mood. The reason he was there was to kill Claudius. The scene only gets worse when Ophelia drowns. "Adieu my lord: I have a speech of fire that fain would blaze, [b]ut that this folly doubts it." (4,7,191-193) I think that this shows the passion that he has towards revenging his family.
Laertes is extremely angry when he finds out that it was Hamlet who had killed his father. His anger was only fueled when he is told that his sister had drowned. Laertes jumped to conclusions and blamed Hamlet for his sister death.
In this scene we see Laertes as an explosive, revengeful person. Claudius get to see a harsh, cold hearted, side of Laertes. He does not care what anyone else says, he is dead set on killing Hamlet. We think that the other characters can see that in his actions. I think that in this act most of the characters show fear towards Laertes. We see this in scene 5, when Laertes barges into the kingdom, Where is my father?" (4,5,126), "Dead." (4,5,127), "But not by him." (4,5,128). These quotes show the tension in this scene.
Questions about your character
Why didn't he immediatley kill Claudius?
What would have Laeretes done if Hamlet was killed in England, and he didn't have a chance to get revenge?
Importance in the act
What new information did you learn?
We begin to see that the greif has taken a toll on Laertes and he begins to make rash decisions without thinking about the concequences. Laertes shows just how revengeful he is, and how his thoughts never stray from his plan to kill whoever has harmed his family.
Laertes is important because we see a different side of him, and we get an idea of what him and Claudius plan to do to kill Hamlet.
Laertes
Scene 7
Scene 5
What do you already know?
Laertes bursts in and is under the impression that Claudius murdered his father , and threatens to kill the king. Ophelia has officially gone mad and now Laertes is planning to revenge his family by killing Hamlet. Laertes in this scene is very contrasted to Hamlet, he seeks revenge and doesn't care what he has to do to get it, "[O]nly I'll be revenged [m]ost thoroughly for my father." (4,5,133-134), where as Hamlet doesn't take action to revenge his father.
Laertes figures out that Ophelia has drowned, and he is now set on murdering Hamlet. He has no conscience in this scene, he does not care when, which is shown in the quote, "To cut his throat i' the church." (4,7,128) When Claudius comes up with a plan to kill Hamlet, Laertes does not hesitate before agreeing to help.
In the beginning of the play we are introduced to Laertes as a level headed and reasonable person, who is very close with the king and his family.