HAMLET’S PLOT
By Sebastian Colino
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Hamlet, the play is written by William Shakespeare
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The book took place in the Royal Castle in Denmark
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The main characters in the play are
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Hamlet (a Denmark prince)
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Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle and king of Denmark)
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The Ghost (Hamlet’s father, the former king of Denamark that was
murdered)
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Gertrude (Hamlet’s mother and the wife of Claudius
Horatio (a scholar and Hamlet’s friend)
AUTHOR, SETTING, AND MAIN CHARACTERS
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Hamlet unhappily returns from his school in Germany to attend his
father’s funeral
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Gertrude remarries Claudius, which Hamlet is not happy about
HAMLET RETURNS
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A pair of watchmen see a Ghost that walks the ramparts of the of
the castle, and has the likeness of the dead king.
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The scholar Horatio next sees the ghost and again said that it
looked like the dead king.
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Horatio and the watchmen bring Hamlet to the ghost and it
speaks ominously to him, declaring that he was in fact murdered
by the king, by pouring a cup of poison into his ear.
THE GHOST
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Hamlet had trouble trusting the ghost, thinking about how it
could be a ghost from the devil.
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He enters into a deep melancholy and even appeared to go
insane
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Claudius and Gertrude employed two of Hamlet’s friends,
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to spy on him.
HAMLET GONE MAD
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Hamlet came up with an idea to trust the Ghost’s trustworthiness
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He would have a group of actors perform a play with a murder,
and make the murder be like one the Ghost described
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The ploy worked, Claudius had to leave the theater, looking
guilty
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Hamlet and Horatio (who are now working together to prove
Claudius’ guiltiness) think that this is enough to prove him guilty.
THE PLOY
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Claudius, frightened of Hamlet’s madness and fearing for his
safety, ordered that Hamlet be sent to England immediately
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Hamlet goes to comfort his mother Gertrude, and hearing a
noise from behind a tapestry, swiftly stabs it, thinking that is the
king, but it is Polonius, a noble who his spying on him
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For this crime, he is immediately dispatched to England with
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
PARANOIA
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Hamlet’s ship is attacked by pirates and it is forced to turn around
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Claudius concocts a plan to kill Hamlet
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It included using Laertes’ (Polonius’ son) revenge he wanted
againast Hamlet
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He would have them swordfight, but poison the blad of Laertes’
sword, so if he drew blood Hamlet would die.
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As a backup plan he had a poisoned goblet Hamlet would have
to drink from if he won the first hit
EVIL PLAN MAKING
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The sword fighting begins
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Hamlet scores the first hit, but refuses to drink the goblet
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Instead, Gertrude drinks from it and is swiftly killed by the poison
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Laertes wounds Hamlet, but he does not die from it immediately
THE DEADLY SWORD FIGHT
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Laertes is then cut by his own blade and tells Hamlet Claudius’
part in the murder of Gertrude, then dies of the poison
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Hamlet then stabs Cluadius through with the poisoned blade and
forces him to drink the rest of the poisoned wine
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Hamlet dies immediately after achieving his revenge
THE DEADLY SWORD FIGHT CONTINUED
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A Norwegian prince named Fortinbras declared himself king
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He gave Hamlet full military honors
A NEW KING
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