Prince Hamlet has a meeting with the dead ghost of his father King Hamlet. The Ghost reveals to his son that his brother Claudius murdered him. Hamlet is told by the ghost that he needs to avenge his death by murdering his uncle Claudius. By this time Claudius has already taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude. Hamlet decides to take a passive approach to avenge his father’s murder.

Hamlet first decides to act “mad” which does not accomplish

much besides warning his uncle that he might know that he killed his father.

Later in the play actors come to the castle to perform a play, and Hamlet has them reenact the murder of is father in front of his uncle Claudius. The actors’ murder scene also makes Hamlet question hims

go to hell. So Hamlet postpones the execution of his uncle, again.

The next confrontation between Hamlet and Claudius does not happen until the end of the play when Hamlet escapes from his uncle's ill-fated murder attempt on his life. Hamlet later sword fences with Laertes. All of a sudden Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude, drinks a glass of poisoned wine, intended for Hamlet. When Hamlet is not looking Laertes stabs him with a poisoned sword. Then Hamlet takes hold of the poisoned sword, and stabs Laertes with it. As this happens Queen Gertrude dies from the poisoned drink. As Laertes lays down dying he reveals to Hamlet that his uncle Claudius was behind it all, the poisoned sword and drink that has just killed his mother. Hamlet, then in a fit of rage, stabs his uncle with the poisoned sword. Hamlet has now finally revenged his father’s death, though much time has passed. He finally dies from the poisoned sword.

Laertes agrees to this, ready to claim Hamlets’ life for his father's

vile murder. When the sword fight begins Hamlet is winning, but Laertes

In Hamlet by William Shakespeare, these two characters, Hamlet and Laertes, both seek to revenge for their murdered fathers. Hamlet is inactive and, with his scheming appr

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