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Hamlet Plot Map
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Hamlet
Skyler Hegardt
English 102-04
Exposition
Topic 1
-Hamlet is set in Denmark
-Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark
-Hamlets father was the king but he "died"
-Hamlets uncle Claudius married Hamlets mother Gertrude and is now king
-A ghost talks to some soilders
- The ghost looks like King Hamlet
- The soilders tell Hamlet
-Claudius says Hamlet is too sad over his fathers death
- Hamlet sees his fathers ghost and he tells him Claudius murdered him
Conflict
Topic 2
-Hamlets girlfriend is Ophelia and her parents say Hamlet wont marry her
-Ophelia stops talking to Hamlet
-Hamlet swears revenge for his fathers death
-Decides to act crazy
Hamlets friends tell him actors have arrived at the castle
-Hamlet convices them to do a play portraying his father being poisoned by Colonius
-Colonius gets upset and leaves
-Sees hamlet as a threat sends him to England
-Hamlet walks in on Colonius praying and confessing to the murder
-He decided not to kill him while hes praying
Text
-Polonius is hiding behind a curtain as Hamlet confronts his mother
-Hamlet says Gertrude cant leave until shes understood his pain
-Gertrude calls for help and so does Polonius
-Hamlet thinks its Claudius and stabs him with a sword
-Polonius dies
-He tells his mother how his father was much better than Claudius
-His fathers ghost appears and scolds him
-Gertrude thinks Hamet is crazy because she cant see the ghost
Rising Action
Topic 3
-Claudius send Hamlet and his friends to England
-Gives his friends a deathe sentence letter for Hamlet
-Ophelia goes mad over her fathers death
-She drowns in the river
-Hamlet returns to Denmark
-Laius and Claudius plot to kill Hamlet
-Hamlet doesnt know Ophelia is dead
-Laius and Hamlet fight in Ophelias grave
-Hamlet claims nobody ever loved her like him
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Resolution
-Court jester invites Hamlet to a fencing dual with Ophelias brother
-Laius poisons the tip of his sword
-Claudius poisons a cup of wine
-Claudius offers Hamlet wine he declines
-Gertrude drinks the wine
-Hamlet gets stabbed with poisonious sword
-Laius gets stabbed with sword
-Hamlets stabs Claudius and forces him to drink the poison
-Prince of Norway comes and sees the royal family dead and takes over the kingdom