hamlet summary
DESCRIPTION
TRANSCRIPT
Summary
The guards see a ghost
Ghost
Guard
Look where it comes again!
In the same figure like the king that’s dead!!
The new king has married the old king’s wife
Hamlet Gertrude Claudius
Though yet of our dear brother’s death the memory
be green, I have taken to wife.
Hamlet, my cousin and now my son, how it is that the clouds still hang on you?
Not so I am too much in the sun.
Hamlet is troubled
Hamlet
Oh God, how weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world. That it
should come to this, my father, not too months dead, and yet within a month, she married with
my uncle – let me not think on it! Frailty thy name is woman….
Laertes is going to university
OpheliaLaertesPolonius
Farewell sister, farewell father
My blessing with thee, be rich not gaudy, neither a
borrower nor a lender be. And above all to thine own
self be true!
Ophelia thinks Hamlet loves her
OpheliaPolonius
He hath my lord of late, made many
tenders of his affection to me
In few, Ophelia, do not believe his vows. I would, not, from this time forth,
have you talk with the lord Hamlet.
Hamlet meets the ghost
HamletGhost
Angels and ministers of
grace defend us!
The ghost tells him a story
Hamlet
Ghost
Whist I was sleeping within my orchard, thy uncle Claudius…
That incestuous and adulterate beast…
C
Villain!!!
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are asked to watch Hamlet
Guilder-n-tern
Rozenc-rantz
Claudius
We do both obey
Gather so much as from occasion you
may glean, whether aught to us unknown
affects him thus
We do both obey
Hamlet is rude to everyone
Hamlet
Hamlet Polonius
Ophelia
You are a fishmongerMy Lord!
I loved you not! Get thee to a nunnery! My Lord?!
Hamlet devises a test of guilt
Actor
Actor
Actor
Hamlet
Travelling Players You could for a need study a speech of some dozen lines which I would set down
for you and insert it, could you not? Ay My LordAy, My lord
Ay, My lord
Give over the play
Actor
It works
Claudius
Actor
Hamlet
Poloni
Ophelia
The King rises
Give me some light away…
What frighted with false fire?
You have my father much offended!
Gertrude is Angry
HamletGertrude
Polonius
You have your father much offended!!
Is that Claudius
behind the Arras??
Hamlet tries to kill Claudius
How now a rat!! Dead!
Hamlet
Gertrude
Polonius
What hast thou done!
Claudius tries to have Hamlet killed
HamletClaudius
For that which thou hast done we must send thee hence.
Prepare thyself for England!
Do it England – the present
death of Hamlet
Ophelia goes mad
Gertrude
Horatio
Ophelia
Claudius
Tomorrow is St. Valentine’s day…
young men may do it if they come to it,
by…
The King’s plan fails
Laertes
Claudius
Claudius, from Hamlet
What should this letter
mean?
But he has soon made a second plan
Laertes Claudius
Claudius, from Hamlet
I will do it!What would you undertake to show yourself in deed your father’s son?
Ophelia drowns
Gertrude
Your sister’s drowned Laertes. She fell in the weeping brook and long it could not be till her garments heavy
with their drink, pulled the poor wretch from her melodious lay to muddy death.
Laertes Claudius
At the fencing match between Laertes and
Hamlet… Gertrude accidently drinks the poisoned drink, Hamlet and
Laertes both get wounded with the sword and finally…
Hamlet La
erte
s
Gertrude
Claudius
The drink! I am poisoned
I am justly killed with mine own treachery
Here thou murderous damned Dane!!
Horatio
Fortinbras conquers Denmark
Ham
let
Laer
tes
Claudius
Ger
trude
Fortinbras
All this I can truly answer
This quarry cries havoc. O death what feast so
bloodily hast struck
Theme Development
There are two main themes present in Act 3 Scene 1 of Hamlet. The two main themes are, Appearance vs. Reality and Action & Inaction. Appearance vs. Reality is apparent in line 47 in which Polonius tells Ophelia that people use appearance to “sugar o’er the devil” Following this line in like 52 Claudius privately admits that he is feeling guilt, which proves that Polonius cant tell the difference between Appearance and Reality.
Action & Inaction is present in this scene when the famous soliloquy “to be or not to be” is said. He is unable to act on what he feels is right. Secondly when Claudius realizes that Hamlet doesn’t love Ophelia nor does he angry, and thus suspects Hamlet knows about the murder and sends him to England. Claudius wastes no time think of possibilities but immediately acts upon his instincts.
REFERENCES
• http://www.slideshare.net/boohle/savedfiles/?s_title=hamlet-26706508&user_login=ricoDamada&qid=c6a16bde-f19c-4774-82c4-fc86139b1e96&v=default&b=
• http://www.slideshare.net/boohle/savedfiles/?s_title=hamlet-10578019&user_login=IanAlexanderr&qid=c6a16bde-f19c-4774-82c4-fc86139b1e96&v=default&b=