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 his father. Hamlet soon encounters the apparition himself, but before he could get a response, a rooster crows and scares the ghoul away. Hamlet tries again, and soon finds out that his father had been murdered.

In Act 2 of "Hamlet", the defining characteristics of Hamlet start to claw their way out of his words, and soon lets us know ehat lind of person Hamlet is. Before this happens, though, we learn that his own uncle hires someone to spy on him, find out what he does, and to sprinkle rumors around Hamlet to try and get people's reactions. Of course, we know to be considered a *censored* move. Im pretty sure we can fill in that blank. Soon, Hamlet is even forbidden to see his own love, Ofelia, because of her father. He then sort of loses his mind, and goes off to anew, where some old friends of his were hired to go and check up on him, but are reluctanct when they figure out that Hamlet knew about them being sent, and not just there out of the kindness of their hearts. Hamlet hatches his plan of revenge by asking the actors of an upcoming play to add in a few lines, just so he can see the guilt on his uncles face, and be certain to go through with his vengeance.