Hamlet

Summary: Well Hamlet's Father is dead,who is also named Hamlet. His uncle takes over the kingdom, and marries his mother, scandals! You never actually find out if Hamlet's mother and his uncle had an affair before, but it's assumed, because they got married only after two months the old king had died. Well the king becomes a ghost and tells hamlet to kills his uncle because his uncle married him. But to leave his mother alone. After this, Hamlet goes or acts crazy, I think slightly both, he ends his relationship with the     fair Ophelia, and tells her to go to a nunnery. Well the king orders the king of England to kill Hamlet because Hamlet was headed for england, but Hamlet kinds out, changes the order, and gets kidnapped by Pirates! Before this he had killed polonius, who was Ophelia's father. Now Ophelia thinks all the men in her life had abandoned her, and she drowns herself, which back then means she was pregnant and not married, Scandal!! Hamlet gets back, hears that Ophelia is dead, and challenges Laertes, Ophelia's brother, to a duel. Laertes dips his sword in poison, to cheat because the king wanted him too, he scratches Hamlet, they accidentally switch swords and Hamlet scratches Laertes, meanwhile, the king is trying to get Hamlet to "take a drink of water" which is really poison, but the Queen, Hamlets mother, drinks it instead, and dies. So Hamlet and Laertes are dying, well Hamlet couldn't die with out killing the King, so he stabs him, and they all die. Hamlet knew that is anyone in Elsinore got the crown, it would still be corrupt, so he killed everyone, and Fortinbras, king of Norway, comes in and takes over the Kingdom of Denmark.


Analysis: The play is set in Elsinore, Denmark, which to the main character Hamlet, is more like a prison, compared to where he goes to school in Whittenburg. The point of view in which Hamlet was written  helps the reader see how crazy Hamlet  acts, and how crazy he  actually becomes. Because Hamlet the character narrates, it's a new path into the story and the madness. The tone of the play changes as Hamlet changes, especially when Hamlet start questioning his religious views and his thoughts on the after life; the tone is more  questioning  than it was before he is faced with his father's ghost. 


Quotes: "There is something rotten in the state of Denmark."


"To be, or not to be, that is the question,"


Themes: The complexity of death, Whether to act or not 


Symbols: Yorick's Skull 


Meaning: Decisions between right and wrong, Being the instrument or arbiter of death with regard to his uncle.