Happy endings, according to Fay Weldon do not necessarily mean a marriage or rescue from death. Instead, a happy ending can come in the form of a spiritual reassessment or moral reconciliation. In Hamlet, what would normally be considered a tragic ending, resulting in the death of nearly all the characters, can instead, as Weldon implies, be seen as both a spiritual reassessment and moral reconciliation. In Hamlet, the final scenes result in the death …showed first 75 words of 705 total…

…showed last 75 words of 705 total…or his life, the price he must pay for revenge. Hamlet dramatic spiritual reassessment concludes with his tragic death at the hand of Laertes. In Hamlet, the hero, Hamlet, undergoes both a spiritual reassessment and orchestrates a moral reconciliation for the entire kingdom. By making the conscious decision to kill the king, Hamlet is able to regain his strength of mind, as well as rid the kingdom of all the evil that dwells within it.