Hamlet Act I Essay, Research Paper

In Act I of Hamlet, the ghost of the king hamlet comes to the battlement,

outside a castle in Denmark. Marcellus and Horatio ask the ghost to speak, but

It remains silent. In Scene 2 the new king, King Claudius, King Hamlet’s

brother, is reprimanding Prince Hamlet for depressed. Claudius and Gertrude,

Hamlet’s mother, tell Hamlet to get over his father’s death. Gertrude married

Claudius one month after King Hamlet died. Marcellus joins Hamlet and tells him

of his sightings. In Scene 3 Laertes and his sister are saying goodbye, because

Laertes is going to school in France. Ophelia, Laertes sister, is telling him

that she is desperately in love with Hamlet. Laertes tells Ophelia that Hamlet

will just use her for sex. Laertes makes Ophelia promise that she will not see

Hamlet. In Scene 4 Prince Hamlet goes to see if what Marcellus is telling him is

true. Sure enough it is. The ghost beckons Hamlet to follow him; and then he

talks to him. The ghost tells him that Claudius killed him by putting poison in

his ear. The ghost wants Hamlet to bring Claudius revenge. In the last scene,

the ghost tells Hamlet that it is not Gertrude fault that he has died. He thinks

that Claudius has brainwashed her.