Why did Shakespeare make “the rest is silence” Hamlets final words?
luannw Teacher High School – 11th Grade eNotes Editor The obvious answer is probably the right one here – it was the end of the play. Hamlet dies with these words. For nearly the entire play, Hamlet wrestled with the words of his father’s ghost asking him to get revenge against Claudius for having killed King Hamlet. Now, Claudius is also dead by Hamlet’s hand. Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, and the one whom the ghost cautioned Hamlet to leave alone, is also dead. There is no one left to carry on the family line, so there is definitely silence. Sources: http://www.enotes.com/hamlet Rate answer: $(‘#aScore-34859’).istars(setAnswerRating); Flag as inappropriate Posted by luannw on Thursday May 29, 2008 at 11:39 PM pmiranda2857 Teacher High School – 10th Grade eNotes Editor “O! I die, Horatio; The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit: I cannot live to hear the news from England, But I do prophesy the election lights On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice; So tell him, with the occurrents, m
