This is the very last scene in Hamlet. This is the scene in which almost everyone dies. The scene starts with a messenger (Osric) telling Hamlet and Horatio that Claudius has put a bet on a fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes. Hamlet agrees to the match and it begins. Hamlet gets two hits on Laertes at which point Claudius puts a pearl of poison in a goblet of wine just in case Hamlet wins. The tide then turns and Laertes strikes Hamlet with his sword (his sword has poison on the tip of it) and then they get into a scuffle. During this Hamlet picks up Laertes sword and strikes Laertes. On the side, Gertrude has just picked up the goblet of wine with poison in it and drinks it (she doesn’t realise it has poison in it). Gertrude then collapses and tells them that the drink is poisonous, she then dies. Hamlet then forces Claudius to drink the poisonous wine and then Claudius dies. Laertes then apologies to Hamlet for poisoning him and then he dies. Horatio picks up whats left of the wine and is about to drink it when Hamlet stops him. Hamlet tells Horatio not to kill himself so that he can tell Hamlet’s story. Hamlet then dies (Horatio doesn’t drink the wine). Then Fortinbars enters and looks around in shock. He tells Horatio that the orders have been carried out (Hamlet forged the letter to the English king. He put in it that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern should be killed at once, which they were). Fortinbars then orders four captains to carry Hamlet’s body outside while simultaneously cannons are being fired. The scene then ends and that is how Hamlet concludes.