 Now let's discuss what happens in act five, which is the final act of the play and the only two scenes in this act Now in scene one We see that Hamlet returns to Elzinor. However, he notices two men digging a grave And then he realizes as he approaches this grave that this grave is Ophelia's grave She has died. She's committed suicide and he feels a lot of grief and a lot of anguish Now as he's witnessing this grave the funeral train approaches and of course part of the group of people that have come to see Ophelia off during her funeral is Layertes and when Layertes and Hamlet see each other They begin to argue they begin to fight and they argue about who loved Ophelia more This argument causes Layertes even more determined to kill Hamlet, okay? Now in scene two of act five This is where essentially Hamlet is asked to fight Layertes in a duel And of course this is where Claudius is hoping that his plan will work and Hamlet will ultimately be killed now This plan doesn't go according to plan four Claudius because during the fencing match during this duel Hamlet wins the first two rounds and of course Claudius becomes really really worried very scared that actually he's gonna end up being The one that kills Layertes now Claudius then in order to have a backup plan decides to offer Hamlet the poisoned cup The poisoned chalice and this is the cup which has the poison to drink in order to try and see if we can kill Hamlet in another Way, however Hamlet refuses However unbeknownst to Claudius Gertrude takes the cup and whilst Gertrude is lifting it to her lips Claudius asks him asks her not to drink it However Gertrude disobeys drinks the cup and of course drinks the poison so Queen Gertrude is the one that drinks this poisoned chalice Now Hamlet is then stabbed by Layertes, okay? So Hamlet ultimately gets stabbed according to the initial plan However Queen Gertrude dies first so his mother the witness his mother dying and of course it turns out that Claudius had also poisoned that cup Now Layertes then reveals his plot with Claudius the plot that Hamlet that they had to kill Hamlet Then Hamlet finally musters up the courage to stab Claudius with Layertes's own poisoned sword Then he makes Claudius also drink the same poisoned cup the same poison chalice that has killed his own mother and ultimately Layertes Claudius and Gertrude die And Hamlet is dying in Horatio's arms his best friend and Horatio ultimately once Hamlet dies at the end Horatio is left to explain the events and what's happened in causing the death of the entire family in Elsinore To the Norwegian prince Fortenbrough whose own father had been killed by King Hamlet and he was actually on his way to avenge his father's death Okay, so really that's it when it comes to understanding act Five but also act four three two and one in terms of the key events that happen in Hamlet and hopefully this helps So what we're going to do is now look at key characters and of course some of the key quotations to remember for this play