The destruction of a family member can be gruesome. Betraying your family could be tricky. When there is false affection towards others, the truth will be noticed. For most, family is a top priority, to be kept safe and loved by others, with no secrets between anyone. This may be possible for some, but in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, this is not the case. One thing more common in the entire work is betrayal by several family members, especially the uncle, King Claudius. But the way Hamlet discovered the truth was unorthodox. With Hamlet, the king of Denmark, finding out who killed his father was like being stabbed in the back because it seemed unreal to know that one's blood can kill a loved one, only to be crowned king. If he is now returned to control his journey, and no longer intends to undertake it, I will force him to an undertaking, now ripen my plan, under which he will choose but fall: and for his death no wind of guilt shall blow , but his mother also will dismiss the matter and call it an accident” (Shakespeare IV. vii. 59-65). So this says that they will frame Hamlet by poisoning him and call it an accident. On the day of Hamlet's death, he was supposed to fence Laertes. Said in Absolute Shakespeare, "Hamlet wins the first two rounds against Laertes but is stabbed and poisoned to death in the third round" (Shakespeare Summaries). Also with this it is specified that, “. . . Queen Gertrude drinks a poisoned cup intended for Hamlet, dying but not before telling everyone she was poisoned” (Shakespeare Summaries). The poison was especially for Hamlet, but it reached all the others and then he died last. Queen Gertrude dies drinking from the cup Hamlet was supposed to drink from, Laertes dies from a stabbed wound by Hamlet that had poison on it, King Claudius is stabbed by Hamlet with the same sword that killed Laertes, and Hamlet dies with a sword wound made by Laertes who had poison on him. That said, the last person to actually die was