By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's witsShould be as mortal as an old man's life?"
Laertes storms the castle to confront King Claudius and Queen Gertrude over his father's murder. And Laertes sees Ophelia’s madness for the very first time.
Liuku: 2
When Laertes and Hamlet confront each other in Ophelia’s grave, they have a dramatic display of grief, competing for who deserves to feel the most pain over her death.
“I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers…Could not with all their quantity of love… Make up my sum.”
Liuku: 3
“Give me your pardon, sir. I have done you wrong; But pardon ’t, as you are a gentleman.This presence knows,And you must needs have heard, how I am punish’ with sore distraction. What I have done that might your nature, honour, and exception roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.”
The fencing match begins with Hamlet apologizing to Laertes, as it continues, the characters begin to die, from poisoning on the swords to poisoning in the wine.