Act 4 Scene 3 and 4

1) In what respect is the play scene a turning point in the play?
The play scene is a turning point because it is considered by some to be the first time that Hamlet goes crazy. It is also when Hamlet finally finds out that his uncle did kill his father.

2) Explain in detail the ollowing parts of plot
Exposition: The backstory of the Fortinbras-Hamlet rivalry s part o the exposition. The gaurds see a ghost and ask for Horacio's help in speaking with it. Horatio attempts to speak with the ghost unsuccessfuly and he makes many assumptions as to why it is there. He notices that it ;is the Old Hamlets Ghost and goes to try to find hamlet because he believes that the ghost might speak to Hamlet.

Then Claudius talks about his sad feelings on the kings death and of how happy he is to be with the queen. He speaks to Laertes and Hamlet and tells hamlet that he cannot go back to university because his mother and the king want him around. Hamlet then has a soliloquy where h talks of the tragedy of his mothers remarriage and how quick it was.

The messengers from the watch tower then find hamlet and tell him of his fathers ghost. Hamlet goes with them to see the ghost. Laertes and Polonius then warn Ophelia about Hamlets love, sayng that he cannot truly love you because he is obligated by his royalty to marry a higher ranking person.
Hamlet, back at the watch tower, decides that he will go with the ghost even though the people there try to convince him not to because they believe that it is evil and will try to kill him.


Inciting Event:
When hamlet goes with the ghost of his father's ghost where the ghost tells him that he is Hamlets father and that he is doomed to purgatory. Old hamlet tells his son that it was claudius who murdered him and married his wife. Hamlet is outraged by this and eventually Horatio and marcellus arrive. Hamlet makes them swear an oath of secrecy and once they have done so he tells them of what the ghost has told him.

Rising Action:
Hamlet has now decided to act crazy so as to trick his step father. He also wants to kill the King. LAertes has gone o to Paris and Polonius sends reynaldo after him as a spy. Polonius wants to know what Laertes is doing there. Then Ophelia tells Polonius of how Hamlet barged into her room half naked and held her without saying anything. he seemed crazy, which is exactly what hamlet want people to think. Polonus tryes to calm her down. Rosencratz and Guildenstren are summoned to the king and queen where they are told to spy on hamlet and see if he is actually crazy or what is wrong with him. Voltemand enters and tells the King that fortinbras is assembling an army but the king sent him to fight in poland instead of attacking Denmark. The king and polonius, who believes that Hamlet is in love with Ophelia, spring a plan to sit and watch as hamlet and ophelia meet and ophelia breaks his heart by giving him back love letters. hamlet s reading a book and Polonius confronts him. hamlet precedes to mock and make fun of the man and completely destroys him.
We then see hamlet confront rosencratz and guildenstern about what they are trying to get from him. He tells that he wont tell them. He then meets the players who he tells to perform a play plus an added scene.
Hamlet then speaks to himself about the ghost and questions weather it was actually his father.

Hamlet delivers his famous to be or not to be soliloquy then meets ophelia who gives him back the love letters while being observed by polonius and claudius. Hamlet sees through the trick and calls her on it and gets very mad. He tells her to go to a nunery and storms off. Just before the play Hamlet finds horatio and tells him his oplan to watch the king throughout the play. If the king shows signs of guilt then hamlet will know that claudius killed his father. He asks horatio to do the same. Claudius stopps the play because he is uneasy and hamlet then knows that his uncle is guilty.

1) Claudius plans to send rosencratz guildenstern and Hamlet to England to "collect tribute" where they will be killed.

2)Polonius is going to hide behind the curtains and listen to hamlet speak to his mother.
3)WHERE IS CLAUDIUS"S SOLILOQUY?

4) It is odd to see the king praying because hamlet does not think the king is good enough to pray.

5)Hamlet does not kill the king because if he kills him while the king is praying then the king will go to heaven and be even better. Hamlet must wait for the king to do something bad.

SCENE 4
1) Polonius tells gertrude to be very harsh with Hamlet. He wants her to confront him about his "pranks" to the king.

2) This quote is what hamlet says when he is killing Polonius. This describes polonius nature. He is like rat that spies on everyone.

3)In this quote he implies that his mother killed the king, not Claudius. Prior to this he had thought that it was claudius alone who killed him.

4)Gertrude says this because she believes that Hamlet has no reason to speak to her as harshly as he does

5) King Hamlet--has hyperion curls, a great commander, he is a mountain, a new light on a heaven kissing hill.

Claudius--moor, a mildew'd ear,

6)He makes the point that hs father was a better man and that it cannot be love that brought his mother and claudius together because she is too old.

7) EVERYTHING is disturbing about this quote!!! he is telling his mother that she is sleeping in a bed filled with a man who is deceitful and everything is bad and wrong.

8)The ghost of his father tells hamlet to stop. He tells hamlet not to be so mean to his mother because she is not so bad.

10) In act I the ghost is angry about his death and wants revenge to be had. In act 3 the ghost is more sympathetic and he remebers his old life when he sees gertrude. This is exactly opposite o Hamlet. As the ghost gets calmer, Hamlet gets crazier. The ghost could be sent to keep hamlet in line.