Hamlet Review
Hamlet is a book written by William Shakespeare. It is a story about the ghost of the king that was murdered returns back to disturb the living and his return ends in terrible consequences. A ghost that is out for vengeance and the murder of a brother controls the gloomy land of Hamlet’s Denmark. The prince in the play tries to avenge the murder of the King on Claudius who is his uncle. The play explores the themes of incest, ethical corruption, and revenge. Hamlet is a sad story whereby characters are out for revenge and through this, they all kill each other sadly even the innocent ones die in the process.
Ironically, Claudius decided to murder his brother Hamlet and poses his wife Gertrude. On realizing that this is why his father was murdered by the ghost, the prince is so mad and the only thing he wants to do is revenge (Shakespeare). Both Claudia and Gertrude are sacred about the behavior of the prince and decide to hire two of Hamlet’s friends to follow him. Polonius who is the Lord of Chamberlain believes that Hamlet is in love with Ophelia who is his daughter and Claudia decides to scout on Ophelia and Hamlet. Hamlet being so mad with his uncle seems not to be in love with Ophelia and tells her to join the convent. When the time comes for Hamlet to kill his uncle, he finds him in the middle of a prayer and does not kill him. Hamlet decides to talk to his mother about his father’s death his mother and stabs Polonius who is hiding in the room and kills him thinking that it was his uncle. Hamlet is chase ways to England and orders are given to the King of England that he should be killed.
Ophelia loses her mind, becomes mad after the death of her father, and sinks into the river. Laertes who is the son of Polonius comes back from France with a lot of anger and Claudius gets him convinced that Hamlet is to be blamed for the death of his father and sister. Thereafter it is said that Hamlet is back in the city because his ship to England had been attacked. Claudius helps Laertes with a plan to avenge his father and sister’s death through a fencing match. Claudius poisons Laertes’s blade with the plan that when he draws blood from Hamlet, he dies (Shakespeare). Claudius has a backup plan if the first one does not work and on the second one, he puts poison in wine, which he plans to offer Hamlet to drink if he does not get stabbed in the match.
The match begins and Hamlet is not stabbed but rejects Claudius's wine and instead, Gertrude drinks the wine and dies from the poison. Laertes manages to stab Hamlet but does not die immediately from the poison (Shakespeare). Hamlet wounds Claudius with the blade that was poisoned and makes him take the poisoned wine. Claudius dies first and after him, Hamlet dies too but after avenging his father’s death.
Hamlet is a sad story about the revenge of a ghost king who was killed by his brother so that he could marry his wife. Prince Hamlet wants to take vengeance on the death of his father by assassinating his uncle, Claudius. In the process, he kills Polonius thinking it was his uncle and Ophelia becomes mad due to the death of her father and drowns in a river. Polonius's son is angered by the death of his father and sister and comes from France to seek revenge. Through a plan set by his uncle, Gertrude dies after consuming poisoned wine which was meant for Hamlet, Hamlet is wounded by Laertes with the poisoned blade and Hamlet uses the blade to stab his uncle and makes him drink the poisoned wine.
Works cited
Hamlet - William Shakespeare. , 2009. Internet resource.
