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Inciting Incident

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Bernardo,  Horatio and Marcellus see a ghost that looks like prince Hamlet's father that has recently died and they try to talk to it.

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King Claudius makes sure to hurry up and marry Queen Gertrude so that Norway does not think that Denmark is weak at the moment. Horatio Bernardo and Marcellus interrupt Prince Hamlet's mourning to tell him about the ghost that they just saw Hamlet then decides that he must see it for himself.

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Ophelia Laerte's brother is telling him that he is currently talking to Prince Hamlet which Laerte"s finds this wrong and that it won't last and that she should forget his actions. after Laerte"s Polonius is told about Hamlet's intentions and she basically gets the same speech that was given to her by her brother.

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Hamlet Horatio Marcellus and Bernardo  are out keeping watch of the castle so that they can see the ghost. This is also the first time that the king has spoken.

Hamlet is told that the ghost is his father and the Ghost tells the story of how he was killed and by who. he was killed by poison and by King Claudius

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Horatio gives a story about king Hamlet and brings up the tension between Norway and Denmark. Seeing the Ghost  and the fact that Prince Hamlet now know who killed his father foreshadows what is to come in the next acts.

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Hamlet goes to talk to Ophelia looking crazy and Polonius and Ophelia go to tell the King. Claudius wants Hamlet to move on about his father's death and to take Claudius as his father. king Claudius is finally informed about the love that prince hamlet has for Ophelia

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People like the king are starting to get the sense that the death of prince Hamlets father is making him go mad and do crazy things and hamlet liking Ophelia is a reflection to that

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Hamlet gives his “to or not to be” soliloquy where he talks about if he should live or not. He then sees Ophelia and tells her off sarcastically.
Hamlet writes a play about the death of his father and king Claudius goes to watch. because e the king feels guilty he orders the play to stop.

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Hamlet sees the king praying and decides on whether to kill him or to not he chooses not to because if he dies while he is praying that would mean that he would go to heaven which is something that he does not want to happen

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Hamlet tells his mother that she sinned in marrying her husband's brother and tells her that he will reveal her inner self which makes her think she will be killed. she then screams for help making Polonius who is hiding in the curtain do the same. hamlet then stabs the curtain thinking that king Claudius is hiding there killing Polonius

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Hamlet giving the "to be or not to be" soliloquy give the reader the insight that he might actually be crazy. now that Hamlet knows that king Claudius is the one who killed his father he is out to kill him and avenge his father.

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Hamlet takes the body away to dispose of it and the queen tells Claudius what happened so he calls someone to find out where Hamlet dumped the body
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern question Hamlet and he plays with them a little and sends them on a goose chase.

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Claudius then questions hamlet and finds out where the body is and tells hamlet that he need to leave and go to England where king Claudius has planned on him to be killed
Hamlet is told about how troops are risking their lives for worthless pieces of land and he can't even do the right thing and kill the man that killed his father.

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Laertes is informed of his father's death and he thinks that king Claudius has done it so he brings a group of people with him to try and overthrow the king and take leadership.
while hamlet is on the way to England he is saved by pirates that board his ship Horatio is informed of this and is told to follow the sailors to where he is hiding

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Claudius tells the truth of his father's death. then he gets the letter that Hamlet is not dead so him and laertes make a plan to finish him off and kill him

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hamlet gets sent away from Denmark to England to be killed now that Laertes knows that hamlet killed his father both Laertes and king Claudius are out to kill Hamlet.

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Hamlet comes back to Denmark to find out that Ophelia has killed herself and attends her funeral where he sees the king and Laertes

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Hamlet has no sympathy for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern  because they betrayed him and sent him to be killed. hamlet comes back looking to kill the king for what he has done. the king challenges hamlet to a fencing match against Laertes betting against hamlet. hamlet is given a drink but he doesn't drink because he wants to finish first. hamlets mom ends up drinking from it getting her poisoned. Laertes tells hamlet that they both had been poisoned by the swords that were used and hamlet rushes over and forces Claudius to drink the last of the poisoned wine.

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in the final scene Rosencrantz, Guildenstern the king, laertes, the queen and hamlet all end up dying. Hamlet is happy at the fact that he avenged his fathers death