Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is about a man named Hamlet who has just lost his father. He is confused because his mother Gertrude is now married to his father's brother Claudius. Claudius is now the king, husband of his mother and his stepfather. Heratio, Prince Hamlet's best friend, comes to tell him that he has seen his father walking around, but Hamlet does not understand because his father is dead. One night they all wait for Hamlet's father's ghost to appear. When he finally appears, he speaks to Hamlet and tells him that his brother, Claudius is the one that has killed him. He also tells Hamlet that he must avenge his death. Hamlet begins by starting to "act" as though he has gone insane, but in reality, he has truely gone insane. Hamlet is in love with the King's counclor Polonius, Ophelia, but his father does not want them to be together. It is not truely a relationship because they only exchange love gifts from distances and only see eachother from time to time. After Hamlet creates a play to show to the kingdom about how Claudius killed his father, Claudius realizes that Hamlet has figured out the truth. When Hamlet confronts his mother about what he has found out, his mother does not understand and does not really believe him, especially when Hamlet tells her that he sees his father's ghost. Polonius is hiding in the room listening to what Hamlet is saying and Hamlet mistkenly kills Polonius through a rug on the wall. This is the turning point in the story where Hamlet truely starts to become insane. After Ophelia finds out that her father is dead, she too, starts to become insane. Soon Ophelia kills herself by drowning. When Polonius' son, Laertes, returns from France, Claudius convinces him that Hamlet is to blame for the death of Polonius and Ophelia. Then Laertes and Hamlet begin a sword fight. Laertes and poisoned his sword and stabs Hmlet with it. Laertes was also wounded by the poison sword and then Laertes tells Hamlet that Claudius killed his mother. Then Hamlet stabs Claudius with the sword and then they all three die.
This story is a tragedy is one of the more interesting Shakespeare plays that I really enjoyed. The only thing about the story that I would change is that I would have allowed Hamlet to live longer than what he did.
Work Cited
Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. "William Shakespeare's Hamlet." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010. Print
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