Hamlet summary | Hamlet Play By William Shakespeare
Hamlet summary: Hamlet is the prince of Denmark.
Hamlet's father was the king, but he died
before the play begins.
Hamlet's uncle Claudius has taken over as
King and married Hamlet's mother
Gertrude. At the beginning at the play
a ghost appears to some soldiers; he
looks just like Hamlet's father,
the dead King.
The soldiers agree to tell
Hamlet all about it. Claudius tells Hamlet he has to stop acting so sad about his father's death.
Hamlet says he will. But, when he's by
himself,he says he's disgusted that his mother married Claudius.
Hamlet's girlfriend is Ophelia.
Her father Polonius and her brother
Laertes try to convince her that
Hamlet doesn't love her they point out that because he's a prince.He can't marry whoever he wants they think he's more likely to seduce her than marry her.
Ophelia doesn't agrees talk to Hamlet any more Hamlet sees the ghost, who says he is Hamlet's father he also talks that Claudius murdered him by pouring poison in his ear.
Hamlet swears to take revenge. He
mentions to the soldiers that in the future
.He may find it useful to act as if he's
crazy. Ophelia tells her father that
Hamlet came to see her after she
returned his love letters and he seems insane his clothes were messed up.
He was trembling and pale and he looked
scared. Polonius now thinks Hamlet really did love Ophelia and he's gone mad because she rejected him. Claudius and Gertrude ask Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, few
friends of Hamlet's from school, to spend time with them and try to search why he's been acting crazy.
Rosencrantz and Guiledenstern try to cheer Hamlet up by saying him the group of actors has arrived at the castle.
Hamlet want to perform as an actors
a play that mimics the murder of his father.He wants to see if Claudius reacts to it and shows his guilt.
He says the ghost might actually be
a lying devil Claudius's reaction to the play will clear up the mystery Claudius, Gertrude and Polonius want to test the theory that Hamlet is acting crazy because he is lovesick.
So they spy on a meeting between Hamlet
and Ophelia. Hamlet is very nasty to Ophelia and says her she should go become a nun after hearing this Claudius decides Hamlet is not in love.
He does think Hamlet's obsessed with
something and since he thinks Hamlet poses a threat to him .He decides to send him to England that evening the actors perform the play Hamlet requested. When Claudius finds a scene where a king is murdered by having poison poured in his ear.
He becomes so upset that he gets up and
leaves. Hamlet sees this reaction as proof that Claudius did indeed murder his father.
When Claudius is by himself he admits he
Killed Hamlet's father.He affords to pray for forgiveness but he can't seem to make himself do it hamlet comes into the room behind him with a sword but he decides not to kill him because he thinks claudius will go straight to heaven if he dies while he's praying and he wants him to go to hell hamlet goes to see his mother not knowing that she's given Polonius permission to hide behind a tapestry and listen to their conversation. Hamlet makes her sit down and tells her.
She's not leaving until he shows her how
bad she really is.Gertrude gets frightened and calls out for help hearing her, Polonius calls out for help too and Hamlet, thinking it's Claudius behind the tapestry stands polonius through the clock and kills him.
Hamlet tells his mother how awful it is that she sleeping with Claudius. He doesn't come right out and say that road is murder King Hamlet or that he thinks gertrude knew about it.
He targets more on how much better Hamlet's father was the glorious and tries to make his mother promise not to sleep with claudius anymore.
She tells hamlet that he's making her
feel guilty the ghost enters and scolds Hamlet for taking so long to get revenge hamlet sees the ghost but his mother doesn't she thinks is crazy.
Hamlet leaves hauling away Polonius's
body claudius and hamlet to England with
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern but he's by himself he says he's given.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sealed letters
ordering the king of england hamlet today immediately after opening the latter a three-year loses her mind following
her father's death.
Laertes returns to Denmark billion
noisy crowd of supporters .He blames Claudius for his father's death and his sisters insanity and threatens to overthrow him Claudius adjusts to persuade Laertes that Hamlet is really to blame.
Horatio gets a letter from Hamlet saying
that the ship he was attacked by pirates
.Hamlet was taken prisoner by himself and
brought back to Denmark.
Claudius and Laertes also receive a
letter from Hamlet in which he says he's arrived back to Denmark alone and will come to see Claudius the next day now that they know hamlet didn't die in England they start plotting a new way to kill him the look like an accident.
Gertrude brings the news that Ophelia
drowned in a stream. Two grave diggers talk and joke while digging Ophelia's grave.
Hamlet gets into a conversation with one
of them he doesn't yet know that Ophelia
is dead. Claudius, Gertrude and Laertes arrive to bury Ophelia they lay here in the ground but before they can throw earth on her.
Laertes leaps to into the grave to hug her
one more time. Hamlet finally realizes who they're burying and starts swearing that no one loved Ophelia more than he did.
He jumps into the grave too and he and
Laertes fight until they're pulled apart
Hamlet tells Horatio that on the way to England he stole the letter that would have sentenced him to death and wrote a replacement telling the king of england to put Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to death.
He managed to get free during the pirate
attack and then he returned to Denmark.
A courtier named was Osric interrupts them to invite Hamlet to a fencing match with Laertes to be held in front of the King and Queen.
Hamlet agrees before the match Laertes poisons the tip of his sword and Claudius poisons a cup of wine. Hamlet gets the
first hit claudius is going to give him a precious pearl as a reward and he drops the pearl into the poison .
Cup and offers it to Hamlet but hamlet says he's not ready to drink yet.Hamlet gets the second hit. Gertrude picks up the poisoned cup drinks from it before Claudius can stop her.
Laertes finally gets a hit wounding Hamlet
with a poison sword and they both get mad and start grappling with each other in the scuffle they exchange swords and Hamlet wounds Laertes with the poisoned one gertrude collapses and says she's been poisoned.
Laertes confesses to hamlet he poisoned the sword and says they're both going to die he blames Claudius for the scheme. Hamlet stabs Claudius with the poisoned sword and forces him to drink from the poisoned cup .
Claudius dies. Laertes dies saying he's sorry for what he's done. Hamlet tells Horatio to remain behind and tell the truth about everything that has happened then he dies.
Fortinbras a prince in Norway arrives with his army on a visit to Claudius when he sees that the whole royal family is dead. He claims the kingdom for himself .
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