Hamlet Summary: Acts 1 & 2
To start off these summaries, this play is highly recommended, but is meant to be lengthy and overlyexplained, but as Shakespeare has said in this play, "There's method to his madness." In Act 1, the events are portrayed as historical fiction, meaning that there is truth to this story, but mostly in the historical parts of these events. But anyways, the exposition is the threshold of the first couple of scenes, introducing Hamlet, his friends, his knights, and his "beloved" mother and loathsome uncle who recently married his deceased brother's wife (that's some nasty stuff), and of course, Hamlet is dealing with this sudden change, along with the death of his father, all within a period of nearly 2 months. Hamlet is both suicidal, borderline insane, but almost justified, if it weren't for moral code. Hamlet's guards had recently encountered what appeared to be the ghost of the deceased king, and decided to tell Hamlet so that he could speak to hi...