Plot Synopsis Of Hamlet

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Plot Synopsis William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a classic tragedy style play set in Denmark during the middle ages. The story depicts a young prince Hamlet, who returns home to Denmark in order to attend his father’s funeral, where he is shockingly surprised at what he finds out. His mother, Gertrude, has already been remarried to a man named Claudius and he has been named king despite Hamlet’s right to the throne. Hamlet’s father comes to him as a ghost and confirms his suspicions in regards to King Hamlet being poisoned by Claudius. Prince Hamlet is asked to avenge his father and set everything straight so the King can pass on peacefully, but the Prince is unsure if the ghost is genuine. In order to set things straight, Hamlet puts on a play he calls, The Mousetrap, in order to sniff out some answers and ultimately lead him to aspire to kill Claudius. As a result, Hamlet gets Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Ophelia, and Laertes all killed in the process of his quest. In the final part of the play, Hamlet kills Laertes with his own poisonous sword, and then kills Claudius, shortly before he himself dies of poison. …show more content…

The level of mysteriousness is this story is higher than Mt. Everest. We see this is the multitude of explanations that coincide with the many situations provided in the play, situations like: Hamlet’s delay to take revenge on Claudius, the madness that ensues as he’s split between two apparent truths, and how he treats fellow characters. The very indicative truth in this observation? There is no definitive answer to any of these questions, but rather, an ocean full of theories as to why certain things happened. Even Hamlets dialogue is full of riddles and puns that go even deeper into intrigue and mystery. The mystery is an important part of what the play wished to speak to its

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