The two friends of Hamlet cannot find out what is wrong with Hamlet. Ophelia and Hamlet meet and the two men are spying on them. Hamlet denies loving her and says it was all fake and didn't she realize that they never had anything between them. Claudius says that that is not why he is mad. They plan to send Hamlet away to England. They agree to wait until they talk to Gertrude after the play.
Later Hamlet talks to the actors and tells them what to add into the play so that it will be like the death of his father. He asks Horatio to watch Claudius during the play to see if he makes any move that would look like he was the murder. The people come to watch the play and Hamlet makes snide remarks to Ophelia the whole time. The actors preform a silent play and then a play that is a lot like the murder of King Hamlet and how Claudius got Gertrude to marry her. In the play when King Hamlet is murdered in the garden Claudius storms out of the room after he has stopped the play from going any further. Hamlet now knows that the words spoken by the ghost were true. He must kill Claudius for what he has done to Hamlet's father. Hamlet's two friends come and tell Hamlet that Claudius is very angry for what he has done. They tell Hamlet that Gertrude would like to see him in her room. He promises his friends that he will not hurt her for what she has done. He will only speak to her with sharp tones. It is what she deserves.
Claudius orders Hamlets two friends to take Hamlet to England so he won't try to hurt this family anymore. Polonius tells Claudius that he plans to spy on the conversation between Gertrude and Hamlet. Claudius then tells the audience that he feels bad for killing King Hamlet and it was a bad idea. He kneels down and to pray and Hamlet comes in and is about ready to kill Claudius. He realizes that Claudius will go to heaven if he kills him because he is in prayer. Hamlet wants him to go to hell. Hamlet will kill him when he is committing a crime so he will go to hell. Hamlet leaves him to his prayer and Claudius rises and says that he was unable to pray and he doesn't know why.
Hamlet goes to talk to his mother and Polonius hides behind a curtain. During their conversation Gertrude cries out for help. This scares Polonius and he also cries out. Hamlet thinking he has caught Claudius in the act of spying he stabs Polonius and kills him before he even checks. Hamlet rips on his mother for marrying Claudius. The ghost retruns to tell Hamlet that he needs to be thinking about killing Claudius. Gertrude cannot see the ghost and thinks that Hamlet has gone mad. The ghost leaves and Hamlet orders Gertrude to never again sleep with Claudius. He tells her of the plan to send him to England. He tells her that he thinks this is a plan to kill him. He says he will make his own plan to kill Claudius to get back at him. He leaves dragging out Polonius.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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