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.

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