This is the last scene of the play, and it's one of the most famous scenes in all of Shakespeare's plays. It's the scene in which Hamlet tells his mother that he's going to cut off all of the twine that's been hanging around his neck. He's just made a bunch of tools out of it, and he wants to use them to kill off all the corpses in his path. He wants to do it now, but his mother refuses to let him do it. Hamlet says