Day: October 5, 2015

In Act 1 Scene 5 the ghost reveals to Hamlet that he is indeed his dad but Hamlet is not sure whether to believe him or not. The ghost goes on to say that Hamlets uncle who is the king right now after he married Hamlets mum his dads wife. He goes on to say that he killed him by putting poison in is ear. After he explains how the new king killed him he says he wants revenge and wants it now. Hamlet then starts to believe the ghost that he is actually his father so he promises to avenge his fathers death, the ghost also says not to do anything to the ghosts wife Hamlets mum. Hamlet comes back and makes Horatio and Marcellus swear that they won’t say a word on this.

In Act 1 Scene 4 Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus were waiting for a ghost (who was Hamlets dad), while they were doing that they looked over to the Kings palace and saw that Hamlets uncle the king was drunk once again, hamlet was mad. The ghost then showed up and Hamlet was wondering if it was a friendly ghost or evil spirits sent from hell. Then Horatio and Marcellus warn Hamlet to not go with the ghost as they think it is an evil spirit, which will do terrible things to him and make him go crazy. Hamlet then ignores Horatio and Marcellus and then the ghost takes Hamlet to have a private conversation.

In Act 1 Scene 3 Laerts is just about to head to Paris before that he asks his sister who is Ophelia about her relationship with Prince Hamlet as Prince Hamlet is way above her in a social status. He asked Ophelia this as he was worried that Prince Hamlet was going to take advantage of his sister Ophelia. Ophelia then says don’t be a hypocrite after he said “if you have sex with Prince Hamlet you are damaged goods” maybe because Laerts might have been sleeping around with loads of women. When Laerts leaves Polonius tells his daughter that Prince Hamlet only wants to sleep with her and that she is an idiot if she believes that Prince Hamlet will actually fall in love with her, he then orders her to stop seeing Prince Hamlet.

In Act 1 Scene 2 Hamlets uncle the new king explains why he married his brothers wife only a month after his brothers death. No one had any issues with it as he was the new king and if anyone did they will have probably been killed. Hamlet was no way happy with this as his mother married another man only a month after her husband died not only just any other man it was Hamlets dads brother the always drunken man known as Claudius.