Hamlet. Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword

Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword
It is commonly said that if you play too close with the fire, you are going to get
burned. This generally means that if you live a dangerous lifestyle, then you will
eventually falter and suffer the consequences. In Shakespeare's Hamlet, there are many
cases where characters are killed because they lived a murderous lifestyle. Claudius
murders his own brother and is then murdered himself. Laertes kills Hamlet but is killed
himself before Hamlet dies. Hamlet murders Polonius and Laertes avenges his father by
killing Hamlet. The lives and deaths of…