Hamlet is a popular play by William Shakespeare that tells of a prince named Hamlet who is very upset over his father’s death. Shakespeare describes Hamlet and his feelings towards his father’s passing. Shakespeare also describes, through Hamlet’s father’s ghost, how Hamlet’s uncle Claudius betrayed Hamlet’s father by killing him to become king. Once Hamlet hears of this he is furious with Claudius and wants to seek revenge. In Act 1 of Hamlet Shakespeare begins developing the theme that betrayal is swiftly followed by revenge by using the play’s events and characters. This theme is beginning to be developed in Act 1 by the use of the play’s events and characters. In Act 1 Hamlet is talking to his father’s ghost who tells Hamlet the story