Hamlet :: Hamlet Shakespeare Summary Review Analysis

Prince village devotes himself to avenging his fathers death, nevertheless, because he is contemplative and thoughtful by nature, he delays, entering into a deep melancholy and even apparent stupidity. Claudius and Gertrude worry about the princes terrestrial behavior and attempt to discover its cause. They employ a pair of Hamlets friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to accompany him. When Polonius, the pompous Lord Chamberlain, suggests that Hamlet may be mad with admire for his daughter, Ophelia, Claudius agrees to spy on Hamlet in conversation with the girl. But though Hamlet certainly seems mad, he does not seem to love Ophelia he orders her to enter a nunnery and declares that he wishes to ban marriages.A group of travel actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamlet seizes upon an idea to test his uncles guilt. He will down the players execute a scene closely resembling the sequence by which Hamlet imagines his uncle to have instruction executioned his father, so that if Cla udius is guilty, he will surely react. When the moment of the murder arrives in the theater, Claudius leaps up and leaves the room. Hamlet and Horatio agree that this proves his guilt. Hamlet goes to kill Claudius but finds him praying. Since he believes that killing Claudius while in prayer would send Claudiuss instinct to heaven, Hamlet considers that it would be an inadequate revenge and decides to wait. Claudius, now frightened of Hamlets madness and fearing for his own safety, orders that Hamlet be sent to England at once.Hamlet goes to look his mother, in whose bedchamber Polonius has hidden behind a tapestry. Hearing a noise from behind the tapestry, Hamlet believes the king is hiding there. He draws his vane and stabs through the fabric, killing Polonius. For this crime, he is immediately dispatched to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. However, Claudiuss send off for Hamlet includes much than banishment, as he has given Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sealed orders for the King of England demanding that Hamlet be put to death.In the aftermath of her fathers death, Ophelia goes mad with grief and drowns in the river. Poloniuss son, Laertes, who has been staying in France, returns to Denmark in a rage. Claudius convinces him that Hamlet is to blame for his fathers and sisters deaths. When Horatio and the king receive earn from Hamlet indicating that the prince has returned to Denmark after pirates attacked his ship en route to England, Claudius concocts a plan to use Laertes desire for revenge to secure Hamlets death.