This scene is the scene in which Ophelia is buried. It starts off by a gravedigger digging a grave and singing while he is doing it. Hamlet and Horatio enter and Hamlet basically starts telling the gravedigger to stop singing. The gravedigger refuses to tell Hamlet and Horatio who’s grave he is digging when suddenly Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, a Priest and a few others enter along with a coffin. Hamlet and Horatio step aside so they can’t be seen and they listen to the congregation. Hamlet realises that Ophelia is in the coffin and appears just as Laertes jumps into the grave to say one last goodbye. Hamlet then also jumps in and Laertes starts to fight Hamlet. Once they brake apart Hamlet starts telling everyone that he loved Ophelia more than anyone has ever loved someone before. Horatio and Hamlet then exit. Claudius then tells Laertes to calm down and wait for the right moment for him to kill Hamlet. They then all exit.

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