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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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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 ...
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'.
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 ...
Jan 2, 2012 · As the scene opens, we see a party and a party-pooper. There are a lot of people dressed in finery and one person dressed in black. That person is Hamlet. Perhaps everyone else is dressed as for a wedding, because the first thing that the new King does is justify his marriage to Gertrude, his brother's widow and Hamlet's mother.
Analysis: The first two scenes of Hamlet introduce the sense of unease and mystery that will pervade the rest of the play. The story begins on a dark, cold night—so dark, in fact, that Barnardo ...
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Hamlet decides to check it out for himself. He tells the other guys to keep quiet about the dead-dad sighting, and plans to meet them at 11:30pm on the designated ghost-meeting platform area. Once everyone is gone, Hamlet indulges in some genius observations: His dad's ghost showing up armed is probably a bad sign.
