hamlet summary hamlet is the prince of denmark. his father has recently died
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Hamlet is the prince of Denmark.
His father has recently died.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
His uncle, Claudius, has married his mother, Gertrud,
and is the king now.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Hamlet's father appears as a ghost and tells him that he has to kill Claudius
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Gertrud ClaudiusThe Ghost
Hamlet
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Hamlet is a person who always THINKS to decide what to DO.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
He wants to kill Claudius.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
He pretends to be mad because this could help him...
... but the question remains throughout the play: Does he
actually go mad?
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Polonius is the chamberlain.
Ophelia and Laertes are his daughter and son.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Claudius and Polonius want
to know if Hamlet is
mad with love for Ophelia.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
(TO BE OR NOT TO BE solilloquy )
They hide and watch Hamlet when he thinks aloud about life
and death
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Hamlet designs a trick to prove that
Claudius killed his father: some
actors will perform a play where a king is murdered by his
brother.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Hamlet watches Claudius's reaction.
Claudius is frightened, leaves the theatre and
starts to pray.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Hamlet tries to kill Claudius now but he stops: Claudius would go
to heaven while his father is suffering in hell.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Hamlet confronts his mother.
He says that it is a shame that she
is married to Claudius,
someone so inferior to her
former husband (Hamlet's father).
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Polonius is hearing from behind a curtain. Hamlet discovers him and kills him thinking that it is Claudius who
is hiding there.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Ophelia goes mad and drowns in a river.
Her brother, Laertes, is very sad.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Hamlet doesn't know Ophelia is dead and takes a walk in the
fields.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
He discovers someone who is digging a grave and finds Yorik's skull.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Yorik was a clown with whom Hamlet used to play as a child.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
The skull makes him reflect on the consequences of death.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
The play ends with a long scene where Hamlet and Laertes fight with swords, apparently only for sport.
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But Claudius and Laertes have put some poison in Hamlet's drink
and on Laertes's sword.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
After some confusions, Gertrud drinks the poison and dies and Laertes and Hamlet are killed by the sword.
Before dying, Hamlet kills Claudius.
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HAMLETHAMLETSummarySummary
Denmark dies as a country, too:
Fontinbras, king of Norway, who has conquered Poland, finds the royal family dead and takes
power of the kingdom.