The End?-Hamlet Act 5

Out of all the themes that are present in this book the one that is the theme of Madness. Obviously it is mentioned several times in the play and it is acted by the characters whether by choice or by circumstances. These are the obvious instances of madness. Ophelia becoming crazy after her fathers death and Hamlet and his actions of madness and deliberate madness are just some of them. However there are many instances were I got an underlying feeling of madness from the writing. Especially in the fifth act there was a ruched and crazy feeling. I felt like he last scene was madness. There are people dying all over the place and fighting and yelling and I felt everyone had gotten a touch it at the end. The whole plot to kill Hamlet did not go as to plan and everything felt like a tower collapsing. In one moment there was sword fight going on between Laertes and Hamlet and I'm reading one word lines, and in the next moment the queen, king, Laertes, and Hamlet are all dead. But I don't just think that it is a cool way to end an action driven tragedy. I think that it is part of Shakespeare's genius. As we read on throughout the act we feel a sense of urgency and madness ourselves. The change in dialogue exchanges and action sequences with everything going on at once, we feel as though it is harder and harder to understand and we start to loose focus on what is going on. The madness came through in the play and we got a taste of it as well. That to me makes the theme that much understandable.