According to line 273, "union" is another word for pearl.

Act 4, Scene 3. Hamlet is being banished from Denmark and sent to England after killing Polonius.

King: So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.

Hamlet: I see a cherub that sees them. But come, for England! Farewell, dear mother.

King: They loving father, Hamlet.

Hamlet: My mother. Father and mother is man and wife, man and wife is one flesh, and so, my mother. Come, for England!

Laurence Olivier starred in the 1948 version of Hamlet.

It says something along the lines of "Dear Friends in England, the two men bearing this letter are particularly annoying to the King of Denmark, who would like you, as soon as you read this and without giving them a chance to go to confession, to kill them straight away and send an ambassador back to Denmark confirming it, or we'll send more Vikings your way. Yours sincerely, Claudius King of Denmark."

Hamlet's mother married his uncle (his father's brother) after his father's death.

There is no background on Claudius' rule. He could have very well have been a better king than Hamlet's father. Hamlet was so consumed with hatred, that he did not even kill the king for the people, he killed him for himself. Plus, he left the nation powerless to the invading nation. He was selfish and filled with hatred. If he had a problem with Claudius and his Mother, he should have talked it out with them. Claudius brought in Hamlet's friends to find out what was wrong with him, and all Hamlet did was have them killed. Hamlet was not a tragic hero, he was a villain.

Oh, yes. Hamlet tortures him constantly and gratuitously. "Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?" Hamlet is just doing that to make Polonius look like a fool.

Jack and the Beanstalk is a popular play based on the old child's fairy tale.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do more than one job for the king. The first is to try to draw Hamlet out in conversation, so they can know what is on his mind. Later they accompany Hamlet to England.

What we see of Ophelia in Act II is her scene where she describes Hamlet's visit to her closet in a state of semi-undress. She claims to have been "affrighted" by this visit. It is worth noting that she instantly takes her problem to her father, which tells us something about how dependent she is on him. (He has taken pains to make her that dependent of course.) We hear that she has followed Hamlet's instructions to the letter. One commentator suggested that Hamlet's purpose in entering Ophelia's room in this way was because he was thinking of taking her into his confidence, but after taking a good long look at her he realized that he just couldn't trust her. And he was right; she cannot be trusted to resist her father in even the slightest way. In the 2000 Almereyda film starring Ethan Hawke, Ophelia (Julia Styles) was present when Polonius reads her love-letters to the king, and she makes clear that she had neither wanted him to read them nor certainly to reveal them to the king. Styles's Ophelia was one of the most fragile you can see, but at least she showed some spunk. In other productions, she is not even there: she has turned over her love-letters to her father "in obedience" as Polonius says. In many ways this shows what a dishrag she is.

This question may be in the wrong category. William Faulkner has a novel called The Hamlet. The question is not clear whether it means that novel or mistakenly uses the word Novel to refer to Shakespeare's tragedy: Hamlet: Prince of Denmark.

He was mudered. A "foul and most unnatural murder." He was poisoned by Claudius, his brother.

The point of view in any play is that of the audience. Unlike novels and stories, there is no narrator through whose eyes exclusively we see what happens. In a play we see all of those things which happen onstage; the playwright chooses which events we are to be witnesses to and which we are to hear from the mouths of characters in the drama.

Polonius is listening to Lord Hamlet's meeting with Gertrude behind the curtain.

William Shakespeare's son was called Hamnet, not Hamlet, and as he died aged 11 in 1596, 20 years before William Shakespeare's own death he wasn't left anything in his father's will.

Yes. "As for your intent in returning to Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire." Or in other words, "I don't want you to go back to University." Said much nicer, of course.

A number of things, obviously. The Ghost is still bellowing "Swear!" from under the stage. And we can assume that Claudius is still partying as he was earlier in the previous scene. What else is happening, we don't know.

Horatio and the guards see the ghost at the beginning of the play.

Hamlet is the only person wearing mourning. He stands aloof from the others. The others are in a celebratory mood: Claudius and Gertrude are happily married, Claudius thinks he's solved the Fortinbras problem (So much for him!), and all is happy with Laertes and Polonius. Only Hamlet is withdrawn and sad.

One. Each act is numbered and number four is just the fourth act.

The way that you look at the ghost can be derived by the way he is portrayed by actor and show concept. If he comes across as the evil father coming back for no more than revenge then you could sa he is evil. But if he is taken in stead as a caring and or weak man who has come back to warn his son then he is good. It all depends on the outlook of the audience member really. Kind of like the witches in Macbeth he sets the play in motion, but is it for his own benefit or the benefit of Hamlet?

your mom is the exposistion

Because Hamlet is the instrument for his own destruction, and the events in the play are riddled with death and hardship. In particular, the story ends with Hamlet, Laertes, Claudius and Gertrude all lying dead on the stage, a common ending for Shakespearean tragedies.