Day: October 2, 2015

This scene is outside the castle walls where Horatio and Marcellus have a night watch. Hamlet joins them at midnight to try and see the ghost of his father. Hamlet does see the ghost of his father and wants to follow the ghost but Horatio and Marcellus says that he should stay “You shall not go, my lord”. Hamlet must know what the ghost has to say and goes with the ghost.

This scene has the characters Laertes, his sister Ophelia and their father Polonius. The scene show Laertes saying good bye to Ophelia and says some advice to her to be careful about Hamlet. Polonius then gives advice to Ophelia to careful of Hamlet “When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul Lends the tongue vows” and that she shouldn’t make herself so readily available as he might not be as nice as he is seeming to be.

This scene has Hamlet, Claudius and Gertrude, where Claudius makes a speech about how he mourns his brothers death but is happy about his recent marriage to his brothers wife. Hamlet is disgusted by this as it was only a month since his father had died and now his uncle has already married his mother. Claudius thinks Hamlet should grow up and get over his fathers death and be happy about their marriage “Of impious stubbornness, ’tis unmanly grief”. Hamlet wants to go back to Wittenberg to study but Claudius and Gertrude don’t allow him.