HAMLET

HAMLET

CHARACTERS

PLOTACT I• A ghost resembling the late King Hamlet is spotted on a platform before Elsinore Castle in Denmark. King Claudius, who now rules Denmark, has taken King Hamlet's wife, Queen Gertrude as his new wife and Queen of Denmark.• The ghost speaks to Hamlet declaring ominously that it is indeed his father’s spirit, and that he was murdered by Claudius. Ordering Hamlet to seek revenge on the man who usurped his throne and married his wife, the ghost disappears with the dawn.

ACT II

Polonius has his own theory about Hamlet's transformation; it is caused by Hamlet's love for his daughter Ophelia.

Polonius decides to tell King Claudius the reason for Hamlet's recently odd behavior.

ACT III

A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamlet seizes upon an idea to test his uncle’s guilt. He will have the players perform a scene closely resembling the sequence by which Hamlet imagines his uncle to have murdered his father, so that if Claudius is guilty, he will react.

Hamlet goes to kill Claudius but finds him praying. Since he believes that killing Claudius while in prayer would send Claudius’s soul to heaven, Hamlet considers that it would be an inadequate revenge and decides to wait.

Hamlet goes to confront his mother, in whose bedchamber Polonius has hidden behind a tapestry. Hamlet believes the king is hiding there and kills Polonius.

ACT IVKing Claudius learns of Polonius' murder which shocks him and decides to sent Hamlet away to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern immediately.

King Claudius reveals his plans for Hamlet to be killed in England.

Ophelia goes mad from the grief of losing her father and drowns in the river. Laertes wants to take revenge for his father’s murder and King Claudius explains to him that Hamlet killed his father.

ACT VHamlet explains to Horatio how he avoided the death planned for him in England and had courtiers' Rosencrantz and Guildenstern put to death instead.

Hamlet fights Laertes. Hamlet wins the first two rounds against Laertes but is stabbed and poisoned fatally in the third round. Exchanging swords whilst fighting, Hamlet wounds and poisons Laertes who explains that his sword is poison tipped.

Now dying, Hamlet stabs King Claudius with this same sword, killing him. Hamlet, dying, tells Horatio to tell his story.

Hamlet recommends Young Fortinbras as the next King of Denmark. Horatio promises to tell all the story we have just witnessed, ending the play.

THEMES

- The Impossibility of Certainty

- The Mystery of Death

- The Nation as a Diseased Body

FAMOUS QUOTATION

To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneOr to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,— No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache, and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to,—’tis a consummationDevoutly to be wish’d. To die,—to sleep;—

To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay, there’s the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause: there’s the respect

That makes calamity of so long life;For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of despis’d love, the law’s delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? who would these fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,— The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns,—puzzles the will,And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;

And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought;And enterprises of great pith and moment,With this regard, their currents turn awry,

And lose the name of action.

HAMLET AND THE LION KING

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Hamlet

Claudius

Old King Hamlet

Rosencrantz and

Guildenstern

Ophelia

Laertes

Polonius

“Correction: I Know Your Father. ”

Act I Scene ii

Horatio: “I new your father. These hands are not more like.”

Mufasa’s Ghost Appears to Simba

Act I Scene v

Hamlet: “Where wilt thou lead me? Speak, I’ll go no further.”

“I Killed Mufasa!”

Act I Scene v

Ghost:“The serpent that did sting

thy father’s life Now wears his crown.”

Hakuna Matata

Act II Scene ii

Hamlet:

“My excellent friends! How dost thou, Guildenstern?

Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do you both?”

“Yeah... But I Pulled It Off. "

Act II Scene ii

Hamlet: “The play’s the thing Wherin I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”

Nala Is Angry With Simba

Act III Scene i

Hamlet:

“Get thee to a nunnery.”

Getting Rid of Zazu

Act III Scene iv

Hamlet:

“How now, a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead.”

“Run, Simba. Run Away and Never Return.”

Act IV Scene iii

Claudius:

“Hamlet, this deed…For that which thou hast done—must send thee hence With fiery quickness…To England.”

“Kill him.”

Act IV Scene iii

Claudius:

“And, England…thou mayst not coldly setOur sovereign process, which imports at full,By letters congruing to that effect,The present death of Hamlet.”

Plans to Kill Simba and Mufasa

Act IV Scene vii

Claudius: “If he be now returned, As checking at his voyage, and that he means No more to undertake it, I will work him To an exploit, now ripe in my devise, Under which he shall not choose but fall.”

“She’s Gonna Eat Me!”

Act V Scene ii

Hamlet:

“He should the bearers put to sudden death, Not shriving time allowed.”

“This Looks Familiar”

Act V Scene ii

Laetres:

“It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain. No medicine in the world can do thee good.”

Simba Fights Scar

Act V Scene ii

Hamlet:

“Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?Follow my mother.”

William Shakespeare Versus

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