Hamlet Plot
...nights, a ghost dressed in the dead King Hamlet's armor has appeared as the clock strikes one. Three men, Horatio (Hamlet's friend), Marcellus, and Bernardo, are talking, when the ghost appears once more. Horatio tries to talk to the ghost, but the ghost is silent and then disappears. The men try to figure out why the ghost has returned and decide that Hamlet should speak to his father's ghost.
Meanwhile, Prince Hamlet is at the castle with his mother, Queen Gertude, and her new husband, King Claudius, who is also Hamlet's uncle. Claudius tells Hamlet that prolonged grieving for his dead father is not right. When they leave the room, Hamlet is alone to lament and think. "O God, God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!" Horatio then comes to greet Hamlet, who is delighted at his friend's arrival. Horatio tells Hamlet about the ghost and Hamlet agrees to meet them.
Laertes, the son of Lord Chamberlain Polonius, is getting ready to leave for France. He leaves his sister, Ophelia, with a warning not to pay much attention to Hamlet, who is trying to court her. Polonius also gives advice to Laertes.
At night, Hamlet joins Horatio and Marcellus to wait for the ghost. The ghost calls Hamlet and Hamlet follows him, even though his friends plead against it. The ghost tells Hamlet the horrible secret--- his father did not die from a serpent's bite but from poison. His father was murdered by Hamlet's uncle, who has now married Hamlet's mother! Hamlet is told to revenge his father's death, but to leave his mother alone. As the ghost leaves, Hamlet becomes enraged at his uncle. From his intelligent, civilized self, Hamlet changes into an enraged person determined to kill his uncle. He decides to act insane so that no one will suspect him. Hamlet makes Horatio and Marcellus swear to tell no one what happened here.
Later on,...
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