Hamlet

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Book report of hamlet by William Shakespeare

Introduction

Hamlet is one of the great plays written by William Shakespeare . The play is a tragedy . It is set within a renaissance court .The play talks about the revenge of Hamlet prince of Denmark . The play highlights great difficulties . Most part of the play is concentrated with disasters in the course of doing the deed . The setting of the play is both in heaven on earth and hell . It is trying to highlight the purification

of Denmark which is delayed and we see it as the play ends . It mostly rotates around Hamlet whose father , the king of Denmark is poisoned by his brother Feng and dies . Hamlet 's father appears inform of a ghost to his son and tells him of the hidden murder and recommends him to revenge Feng wants to kill Hamlet and this why he sends him to England with two accompaniments and a secret commission requesting the king for his murder . It is too unfortunate that Hamlet gets hold of the letter is not murdered but later after his return from England murders Feng as a revenge of his late father and is made the King of Denmark (Shakespeare Barnet 94

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The play talks about Hamlet , where Hamlet father who defeated the king of Norway in a duel is murdered by his brother Feng and inherits his brother 's wife Gerutha . The brother doesn 't make the murder to be a secret but rather portrays it openly . In reaction to the murder , Hamlet starts behaving like an idiot though his speeches are a confusing mixture of prudence and foolishness that tests are devised for him . The behaviors are a way of protecting himself and avoid suspicion from his plans . One of the tests given to Hamlet is to see whether he will react normally to a fair woman of which he does but swears her to secrecy Another suggestion is given by a friend of Feng where Hamlet should conceal himself in the chamber to listen to them while he together with his mother (Shakespeare Barnet 96

Hamlet discovers the eavesdropper who is Polonius , kills him , dismembers the body and feeds it to the pigs . With his anger , he goes back to the lamenting mother and attacks her not remembering her first husband and his marriage to Feng . Afterwards Feng sends Hamlet to Britain with the accompaniment of two retainers i .e . Rosencrantz and Guildenstern who carry a secret letter to take to the King requesting for the death of Hamlet . Still I have cause , and will , and strength , and means To do 't ' This quotation highlights Hamlet defiance and determination . He has the will to revenge and this gives him the determination to go to England and come back alive . By chance , Hamlet gets hold of the letter replaces his name with that of his companion and in addition suggests that the king should give his daughter in marriage to...