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   Summary: Act I, scene ii. The morning after Horatio and the guardsmen see the ghost, King Claudius gives a speech to his courtiers, explaining his recent marriage to Gertrude, his brother’s widow and the mother of Prince Hamlet. Claudius says that he mourns his brother but has chosen to balance Denmark’s mourning with the delight of his ...

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3. www.litcharts.com › lit › hamletHamlet Act 1, Scene 2 Summary & Analysis - LitCharts

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   Analysis. Inside the walls of Elsinore, Claudius —the new king of Denmark—is holding court. With him are his new wife Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother and the queen; Hamlet himself; Claudius’s councilor Polonius; Polonius’s children Laertes and Ophelia; and several members of court. Claudius delivers a long monologue in which he laments the ...

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   Act 2 scene 1 Polonius employs a servant to travel to Paris and spy on his son, Laertes. Polonius then learns that Hamlet has been behaving oddly towards Ophelia and has been physically rough with her. Polonius claims 'This is the very ecstasy of love, / Whose violent property fordoes itself / And leads the will to desperate undertakings'.

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   Jun 2, 2020 · The Ghost, in the form of the late King Hamlet of Denmark, appears but will not speak. Horatio decides to tell his fellow student, Prince Hamlet, about the Ghost’s appearance. Act 1, scene 2 In an audience chamber in Elsinore, Claudius, the new king of Denmark, holds court. After thanking his courtiers for their recent support, he dispatches ...

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   Corruption can also refer to the process of rot and decay which affects all living things. In a state of deep melancholy (deep, pervasive sadness), Hamlet’s first soliloquy opens with the wish that his “too sullied flesh” will melt and dissolve away. He sees his own flesh and blood as corrupted or tainted (“sullied”) by the incestuous ...

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   Summary. Claudius holds court at Elsinore and thanks everyone for their support through the kingdom's recent events: the death and funeral of his brother, King Hamlet, and Claudius's subsequent marriage to Gertrude. Claudius then turns to the matter of young Fortinbras of Norway, giving everyone the latest information on the warlike young man's ...

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   What happens in Act 1 Scene 2 of Hamlet?

   • Professor Regina Buccola, Chair of Humanities at Roosevelt University, explains Act 1, Scene 2 in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Claudius holds court at Elsinore and thanks everyone for their support through the kingdom's recent events: the death and funeral of his brother, King Hamlet, and Claudius's subsequent marriage to Gertrude.

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   What happens in Act 1 Scene II?

   • Read a translation of Act I, scene ii Having established a dark, ghostly atmosphere in the first scene, Shakespeare devotes the second to the seemingly jovial court of the recently crowned King Claudius.

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   What happens at the end of Hamlet?

   • In Act 5 we see the tragic conclusion of the play – Hamlet accepts Laertes’ challenge and is poisoned during the fight. Laertes, Claudius and Gertrude also all die. The only central character left alive at the end of the play is Horatio and Hamlet asks him, as he dies, to ‘tell my story’.

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   How does Shakespeare explain Hamlet's relationship with Prince Hamlet?

   • Shakespeare again packs a lot of information into a single scene, some of it played out here and some previous action communicated in the dialogue. This scene gives a firsthand look at the new king and queen, as well as some understanding of their strained relationship with Prince Hamlet. Hamlet's emotional disturbance is readily visible.

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   How does hamlet respond to Claudius?

   • Hamlet stiffly agrees to obey her. Claudius claims to be so pleased by Hamlet’s decision to stay that he will celebrate with festivities and cannon fire, an old custom called “the king’s rouse.” Ordering Gertrude to follow him, he escorts her from the room, and the court follows.

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   How does hamlet react to his mother's marriage to his uncle?

   • Hamlet is appalled by his mother’s marriage to his uncle and privately says 'O, most wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!'. His good friend Horatio interrupts him to report that he’s seen the ghost of his father. WHAT DO WE LEARN? Hamlet’s father has died and his mother, Gertrude, has married his uncle, Claudius.

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9. www.yorknotes.com › 01020104_act-i-scene-2Act I Scene 2 Hamlet's first soliloquy Hamlet: AS & A2

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   Throughout the play, Hamlet's soliloquies will dramatise the idea of a man wrestling to make sense of complex thoughts and feelings. Hamlet's first soliloquy contrasts dramatically with Claudius's glib, flowing lines. The listless tempo of the words How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable (line 133) conveys Hamlet's almost suicidal melancholy.