As the play begins, Hamlet is in a grieving period over the death of his father. What makes it worse is that only a few weeks after the horrible and untimely death, Hamlet's mother, the Queen of Denmark, remarries Hamlet's uncle, the deceased King's brother. "Thrift Thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables," Hamlet exclaimed to his best friend Horatio. The funeral of his father and the wedding of his mother and u

ncle were so close together, the leftover food from the funeral was used for the marriage. Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his father, who tells Hamlet that his uncle is the one who killed his father and that Hamlet should revenge his father's death. "The serpent that did sting they father's life now wears his crown," said the Ghost who claimed to be Hamlet's father. The one who now wears the crown, Hamlet's uncle, is the one who killed him. Hamlet becomes filled with rage and decides that he must kill his uncle. Unfortunately, Hamlet thinks that his uncle is behind a curtain, stabs through the curtain, and kills a friend named Polonius, who is the father of Laertes, one of Hamlet's best friends, and of Ophelia, Hamlet's ex-girlfriend. This is the first innocent person to die because of a lust after revenge. With the tragic loss of her father, as well as her recent loss of her relationship with Hamlet, she becomes crazy. "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions," the King remarks; making that assumption after so many bad things happened to Ophelia in such a short period of time. She is so mad that it gets to the point where she kills herself. Now, Laertes wants revenge for his father. Seeing the opportunity to get rid of Hamlet, the King sends him to England, escorted by his childhood friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with a note to England to kill Hamlet. Hamlet opens the note, sees what is going to happen, and changes it so that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are killed in England; two more innocent deaths. Upon returning to Denmark, the King is amazed to find out Hamlet is still alive. He decides to use Laertes's want for revenge in order to create a scheme in which Hamlet will be killed. He sets up a du

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