Reflective Post on Hamlet

The plot of Hamlet involves a lot of tragedy.  First the story starts out with the ghost that walks the Elsinore Castle in Demark.  The ghost was discovered by some watchmen and the scholar Horatio.  It was said to resemble the deceased King Hamlet.  After the death of the King, Claudius his brother marries his wife, Queen Gertrude.  The ghost speaks to Hamlet, the king’s son, and tells him that Claudius was his murderer.  The ghost tells Hamlet that he wants him to kill Claudius to revenge his death.  Prince Hamlet is in good nature and cannot find himself to kill Claudius.  Polonius tell Claudius that Hamlet is in mad love with his daughter Ophelia.  Though Hamlet does not seem to love Ophelia she is ordered to a nunnery.  A group of traveling performers performs a reenactment of how Claudius killed King Hamlet and Hamlet sees that he is in fact guilty.  Claudius goes to pray and Hamlet does not kill him thinking that he is pray and will go to heaven.  Claudius is not frightened of Hamlet.  Hamlet goes to his mother Gertrude to tell her of his father’s killer where he kills the hiding Polonius.  Hamlet is banished from Denmark and sent to England.  After Ophelia hears about her father’s death she kills herself.  When Laertes hears of his father’s and sister’s death he feels that Hamlet is the one responsible for both deaths.  Hamlet comes back from England around the time of Ophelia’s funeral for a duel with Laertes.  Claudius poisons the sword that Laertes will use in the duel with Hamlet and also poisons the wine in the goblet.  During the fencing match Hamlet wins the first round but declines the drink of wine.  Queen Gertrude drinks from the goblet and instantly dies.  Laertes ends up cutting Hamlet with his sword and he is also cut by his own sword also.  Laertes dies from the poison but Hamlet does not die immediately.  He has enough time to force Claudius to drink form the goblet and they all die.  Fortinbras take over the power of the kingdom.  Horatio tell the story of Hamlets tragic story and receives a proper burial.   

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