Spark. Notes: Hamlet: Plot Overview. On a dark winter night, a. Elsinore Castle in Denmark. Discovered. first by a pair of watchmen, then by the scholar Horatio, the ghost. King Hamlet, whose brother Claudius. Queen Gertrude. When. Horatio and the watchmen bring Prince Hamlet, the son of Gertrude.
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Claudius. Ordering Hamlet to seek revenge. Prince Hamlet devotes himself to avenging his father’s. Claudius. and Gertrude worry about the prince’s erratic behavior and attempt. They employ a pair of Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz. Guildenstern, to watch him. When Polonius, the pompous Lord. Chamberlain, suggests that Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter.
Ophelia, Claudius agrees to spy on Hamlet in conversation with the. But though Hamlet certainly seems mad, he does not seem to. Ophelia: he orders her to enter a nunnery and declares that. A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamlet. He will have the. Hamlet imagines his uncle to have murdered his father, so that if.
Claudius is guilty, he will surely react. When the moment of the. Claudius leaps up and leaves the. Hamlet and Horatio agree that this proves his guilt. Hamlet. goes to kill Claudius but finds him praying. Since he believes that. Claudius while in prayer would send Claudius’s soul to heaven.
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Hamlet considers that it would be an inadequate revenge and decides. Claudius, now frightened of Hamlet’s madness and fearing.
Hamlet be sent to England at once. Hamlet goes to confront his mother, in whose bedchamber. Polonius has hidden behind a tapestry. Hearing a noise from behind. Hamlet believes the king is hiding there. He draws. his sword and stabs through the fabric, killing Polonius. For. this crime, he is immediately dispatched to England with Rosencrantz.
Guildenstern. However, Claudius’s plan for Hamlet includes more. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sealed orders.
A platform before the castle. FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO BERNARDO Who's there? FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself. BERNARDO Long live the king!
King of England demanding that Hamlet be put to death. In the aftermath of her father’s death, Ophelia goes mad. Polonius’s son, Laertes, who. France, returns to Denmark in a rage. Claudius. convinces him that Hamlet is to blame for his father’s and sister’s.
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When Horatio and the king receive letters from Hamlet indicating that. Denmark after pirates attacked his ship. England, Claudius concocts a plan to use Laertes’ desire. Hamlet’s death. Laertes will fence with Hamlet. Claudius will poison Laertes’ blade so that. Hamlet will die. As a backup plan, the king decides. Hamlet to drink should Hamlet.
Hamlet returns to the. Elsinore just as Ophelia’s funeral is taking place. Back at the castle, he tells Horatio that. A foolish courtier named Osric arrives on Claudius’s orders. Hamlet and Laertes. The sword- fighting begins. Hamlet scores the first hit.
Hamlet: Plot Summary (Acts 1 and 2) Act 1, Scene 1 Hamlet opens with the sentry, Francisco, keeping watch over the castle at Elsinore. He is relieved by Barnardo, who is joined shortly by Horatio and Marcellus.
Instead. Gertrude takes a drink from it and is swiftly killed by the poison. First, Laertes is cut by his own sword’s. Hamlet that Claudius is responsible. Hamlet then. stabs Claudius through with the poisoned sword and forces him to. Claudius dies, and Hamlet. At this moment, a Norwegian prince named Fortinbras, who. Denmark and attacked Poland earlier in the play, enters.
England, who report that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Fortinbras is stunned by the gruesome sight of the entire.
He moves to take. Horatio, fulfilling Hamlet’s last.
Hamlet’s tragic story. Fortinbras orders that. Hamlet be carried away in a manner befitting a fallen soldier.