is it a kind of dream?

In fact, i want to add that the 'ending' jarred in style and tone with much of what we'd witnessed up until that point. It was like suddenly, everyone decides to quit flapjawing and DO something - like kill each other. Okay, so why did Claudius hatch that plan? Why did Laertes, who was back from a long time away elsewhere - France was it? agree to said plan? What was the motivation?

It really was like suddenly that bit was from a different play altogether. Hamlet up until that point had been a lot of pointless yelling and shouting and pontificating, and the most energetic scene was the one where Hamlet yelled at his momma in her bedroom - there was almost fisticuffs...

So suddenly they break out the swords and kill each other? Eh?

Really, it kindof jarred. I dont think i said that clearly enough in my original post so i'm putting it here.