Hamlet

Two different good versions of 'Hamlet' were printed, first in 1604-5, and then in 1623. They're not identical. They have different numbers of words. So it's impossible to give an exact answer. It depends on which of the original printings you mean.

Horatio finds Hamlet asleep in the middle of a dirt road.

You cannot see the ghost hamlet

Hamlet accidentally kills Polonius, the father of his love interest Ophelia and the advisor to King Claudius, Hamlet's deceased father's brother who recently married Hamlet's mother.

Polonius is hiding behind a tapestry in the room of Hamlet's mother Gertrude, planning to eavesdrop on their discussion about Hamlet's apparent madness of late. They all assume it is because Ophelia has broken up with him. However, in reality it is a ploy to keep from arousing suspicion as he plots to kill Claudius, because Hamlet was visited by the ghost of his father telling him that Claudius had murdered him to usurp the throne and instructing Hamlet to avenge his death.

When Hamlet hears a noise behind the tapestry, he assumes it is Claudius and stabs into the curtain, killing Polonius.

This occurs at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 4.

"The King rises." Of course the text is not clear about exactly what Claudius is feeling when he rises. Certainly the representation of his murder of Hamlet Sr. has hit home--we know that from the following scene where he struggles with his guilt. On the one hand Claudius may rise because he is horrified by the memory of his crime, and he is distracted. On the other, Claudius may recognise the play for exactly what it is, may understand exactly what is troubling Hamlet, and rises because he refuses to put up with any more. The first may be called the "Claudius out of control" reading and the latter may be called the "Claudius in control" reading. Either one works.

Public policy, the good of the state, since Hamlet is the heir apparent to the throne.

Hamlet isn't buried. He dies at the end and is carried out of the room respectfully.

Technically, King Cladius Kills Gertrude in Hamlet, but not intentionally. King Cladius poisons the wine for Hamlet to drink but he refuses it to keep fencing Laertes but when hamlet makes the second strike the Queen wants to drink to him and when she does she drinks from the poisoned cup and dies.

he trusts no one. To throw everyone off the scent of his search for the truth of the ghost's statement that his uncle killed his father, he decides to act mad. Not necessarily a clever strategy, but certainly an entertaining one.

Gertrude's account of Ophelia's death is not clear on the point. Her account says that Ophelia was hanging flowers on a tree branch overhanging a stream. The branch broke and she fell in. She floated downstream singing until her clothes became waterlogged and pulled her under, thus drowning her.

Here are some approaches:

1. The gravedigger's approach. If she goes to the water, she drowns herself. Had she not wanted to drown she would have made some effort to get to shore, but she was happy just to lie there. Therefore she must have intended to die.

2. The insanity defence. But Ophelia is mad, and not in her proper senses. She may not have understood that she would ultimately have drowned. She did not try to escape because she didn't understand, not because she wanted to die, so it's not suicide.

3. Suicide traditions. It may sound strange but women who committed suicide because they were pregnant and unwed used to commit suicide by throwing themselves in the river. This was a tradition. According to some people, the fact that she drowned in the river tells the whole story. Who else did you think she was singing about when she sang "Quoth she, 'Before you tumbled me, you promis'd me to wed.' He replies 'So would I ha' done, by yonder sun, if thou hadst not come to my bed.'"?

4. Sparing the feelings of the bereaved. Gertrude is not telling this tale just to Claudius, but also to Laertes, who is still reeling from the death of his father. In order to spare Laertes' feelings, she is leaving out details which would confirm it as suicide. Likewise, when the priest says, "Her death was doubtful", he really means, "I have not got the slightest doubt that your wicked sister killed herself."

The situation may well be that Ophelia's death was an accident, but that everyone around believed that it was suicide. Thus poor Ophelia is deprived of a Christian burial which, according to the beliefs of the time, would have denied her access to heaven. She is an innocent victim of those who should have cared for her (her father, her brother, Hamlet, the Queen, the church) in death as in life.

Hamlet is based off of a true story, but it is not the same and some say different things. One person says that there was a danish scholar who wrote down the story of "Amlet," but the debate continues. Short answer, yes. Sorry i dont know more about WHO he is

Reynaldo is being sent to spy on Laertes. Polonius authorizes him to accuse Laertes of all kinds of immoral behaviour to find out from his associates whether he is in fact involved in it. The fact that this will tarnish Laertes's reputation in the process does not seem to bother him.

Fortune is characterized as a malicious or capricious prostitute. In Hamlet's discussion with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, Guildenstern starts with the metaphor "On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.", and so they explore just what part of Fortune they might be worn on and conclude that their fortunes are middling so they are worn in her middle, whereupon Hamlet says "In the secret parts of Fortune? True, she is a strumpet." This might be thought to be a throwaway joke except that the First Player's speech about Hecuba includes the line, "Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune."

In his famous soliloquy Hamlet talks about "the slings and arrows of outrageous Fortune", suggesting that Fortune is malicious. His line to Horatio, that he is "a man that Fortune's buffets and rewards have ta'en with equal thanks" suggests a more equanimical view of Fortune. He goes on to say "Blest are those whose blood and judgment are so well commingled that they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger to sound what stop she please." This echoes Romeo's line "O I am Fortune's fool!"

She drowns after going crazy. Many think it is a suicide.

The Ghost used to be when he was alive Hamlet's father Hamlet Sr., who was the king of Denmark. Now he is dead and spending all day in Purgatory having his sins purged and the hours between midnight and dawn lurking about the battlements of Elsinore hoping that someone will push his son in his direction.

When Hamlet encounters his ghost, the spirit tells him of his sad fate - he was poisoned by his own brother in order to usurp the crown. Hamlet's father then tells him to seek revenge by killing his uncle, who has stolen his crown and his wife, the Queen.

Revenge is what drives the majority of the action of the play. It is the obligation Hamlet is given by the ghost of his father early on in the play and shapes most of the interactions between characters from that moment on. The complicated morality of revenge is a large part of Hamlet's torment. The revenge motive is what makes Hamlet "feign" madness and establishes the chain of events that leads to Ophelia's madness and death, as well as the enormous body count that amasses by the end of the play.

When Hamlet decides to put on an "antic disposition" he is suggesting that he should act like a madman. In Shakespeare's time antic meant disturbingly or even threateningly bizarre or irrational. By acting crazy, Hamlet hopes to confuse the king and make him uneasy.

A number of reasons:

1. A king is surrounded by bodyguards who might prevent him from succeeding.

2. The ghost might have been lying in which case it would be murder.

3. Hamlet wants to kill him at the right time.

His name is Polonius, except in the First Quarto when his name's Corambis.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern also act as advisors in a way. They're basically summoned by Claudius to be advisors on Hamlet's mental state.

Initially Hamlet is uncertain about the honesty of the ghost. Then he loses an opportunity when he decides not to kill Claudius in the confessional because his soul will go to heaven. Then he becomes involved in plot that finds him bound or transported away from Claudius for a good portion of the play. He is also filled with self-doubt about his ability to kill him, and the nature of his existence, which causes delay.

Polonius dies.

Ophelia dies.

Claudius dies.

Hamlet dies.

Hamlet returns home for his father's funeral.

Hamlet stages a play to prove Claudius's guilt.

Ophelia drowns in a river.

Hamlet and Laertes duel.

Hamlet returns to Denmark to bury his father.

Hamlet kills Polonius.

Ophelia is found dead.

Laertes and Hamlet duel.

They both love Ophelia. They both seek vengeance, and find that the quest for vengeance pushes them toward the throne of Denmark. They end up getting what they want, but dying in the process. They may both be seen as quasi-heroic protagonists.

Hamlet kills Claudius by stabbing him with the poisoned sword Laertes carried and by forcing Claudius to drink the dregs of the poisoned drink which killed Gertrude.

The ghost warns hamlet not to do anything to his mother, but to "leave her to heaven".

Hamlet was a mass murderer. First he stabbed Polonius while he was evesdropping behind a curtain. Then he forged an order for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to be put to death. Laertes was next murdered by Hamlet in the fencing match where Laertes had the posioned sword. Hamlet ended up with it and cut Laertes. Finally, Hamlet killed Claudius.

That's five people.