What is Hamlet about?
Hamlet is about the prince of Denmark, named Hamlet, coming home after his father dies. He finds out that his mother marries his uncle, Claudius, who is now King of Denmark. Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, appears as a ghost in front of Hamlet to tell him that he was murdered by his own brother. Hamlet is enraged when he comes to learn the truth and causes Hamlet to embark on a journey of revenge to avenge his father’s death, causing several to suffer around him and die around him. Polonius is killed by accident by Hamlet, Ophelia drowns in a river, Laertes dies in the sword fight, Gertrude is poisoned and dies, Claudius is stabbed by Hamlet and Hamlet is stabbed by a sword whose blade had been covered with poison and he dies as well. The story shows how revenge can consume a person’s life entirely and how death is inevitable.
What are the enduring themes and messages?
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This can be shown through the death of many characters, especially the death of Hamlet. Hamlet has only one mission in mind after the ghost says to get revenge, however, Hamlet seems to have forgotten death is inevitable at the moment but starts to realize it throughout the play . In act one scene two, Gertrude and Claudius are talking to Hamlet about how he cannot spend his whole grieving over his father. Gertrude tells Hamlet, “ Thou know’st ‘tis common. All that lives must die/ Passing through nature to eternity” (Shakespeare 1.2.72-73). His mother is telling Hamlet that is the circle of life; someone is born and eventually they will die. In act five scene 1, while Hamlet asks the gravedigger how long it takes a body to decompose, the grave digger points to a skull that was once knew the person. Hamlet there realizes the death is indeed inevitable: “Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay/ might stop a hole to keep the