What were the events in the play hamlet?

Answer 1

Hamlet's friends get him to watch out for his father's ghost, who he sees. The ghost tells him that he was murdered by Hamlet's uncle who has since married his former sister-in-law and become king. While Hamlet is deciding what to do, he runs into a travelling acting company, who he gets to put on a play which looks a lot like the murder the ghost describes. The King's reaction tells Hamlet that the ghost was telling the truth and he goes off to kill the King. He finds him, but does not want to kill him while he is praying. Instead he verbally abuses his mother and, hearing a noise in the curtains, kills who is behind it. Unfortunately it is not the king, but the king's advisor who also happens to be the father of Hamlet's girlfriend Ophelia. The king sends Hamlet away to England, and while he is gone, Ophelia goes crazy and dies, and her brother Laertes vows revenge on Hamlet. A Fencing match is arranged at which Laertes is to murder Hamlet, but it does not turn out well: Hamlet is fatally poisoned all right, but he kills Laertes and the king while his mother dies after drinking a poisoned drink meant for Hamlet. At the end of the play the stage is covered in corpses.

Answer 2

Nothing. He doesn't meet the players until Act 2 Scene 2. In this scene he asks the players if they will play The Murder of Gonzago with some added lines by Hamlet the next day. Afterwards, in a soliloquy, he gets the idea of having the players play this play and making it like his father's murder: "I'll have these players play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle. I'll observe his looks, I'll tent him to the quick--if he do blench, I know my course." Shakespeare clearly sacrificed coherence of plot to dramatic convenience here.

Answer 3

The incident that gets the plot moving in Hamlet is a ghost being seen that similarly looks like King Hamlet, who is recently dead. The ghost is seen by Horatio.

Answer 4

Claudius, feeling guilty at the parallels between the play and his murder of King Hamlet, stops the show by crying, "Light! More light!"

Answer 5

Hamlets observation of Claudius during the play.

Answer 6

There is no conflict in this scene. However, the ghost's message to Hamlet sets up considerable internal conflict within Hamlet i.e. To revenge or not to revenge, and if so, how and when?