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Hamlet was a prince of Denmark, who was visited by the ghost of the King. The King told the young Hamlet to get his revenge on the person that had killed him and married his wife. Hamlet was supposed to leave her fate to heaven. Hamlet was to act crazy so that King Claudius would not suspect him from plotting against him. Claudius then suspects Hamlet, so he sends Rosencrantz and Gildenstern to take Hamlet back to England with them. When they were to get back to England, they were to kill him. On the way back to England the boat that they were on was attacked by pirates. Hamlet was too smart for Rosencrantz and Gildenstern, he changed the letter to say that the bearers of the letter were to be killed immediately after arriving in England. Hamlet then returns to Denmark to extract the revenge that the ghost had told him to get from Claudius. Hamlet finds out that his only love was dead, Ophelia drowned in a stream. Hamlet once said expressing his love towards Ophelia, "I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."(Shakespeare). The King and Queen went to the show called "The Murder at Gonzago" and Hamlet called it the mousetrap. Hamlet talked to the actors in the play so that they could stage the murder scene just like the way Claudius had killed the King. As the play went on, they reenacted it just the way it really happened. Once King Claudius saw the murder scene in the play, he raised up out of his seat and ran off. Hamlet went after him and was going to kill him except he found him praying at the alter. Hamlet knew if he killed him while praying it could be a one way ticket to heaven and he did not want Claudius to be forgiven for the sins that he had done. Hamlet then went to his mothers chambers and shoved a sword through the tapestry, thinking it was Claudius, but it was Polonius. Killing Polonius instantly. Claudius sends for Laertes, Claudius wanted Laertes to kill Hamlet. The queen drinks the poison that Claudius left for Hamlet and Laertes, Hamlet, and Claudius are fatally wounded by a sword that had poison on the tip. If the queen could have broke the chains from th

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