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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Hamlet Act 1

-the changing of the guards is taking place at the beginning
- the guards are talking when they see a ghost
- the audience does not learn much about the ghost or anything else during this scene
- they realize that the ghost looks like the dead King Hamlet
- King Claudius decides to marry Gertrude
- Claudius seems to ignore Hamlet
- Hamlet does not like how quickly the marriage happened
- Claudius does not want Hamlet to return to school
- Hamlet hates the situation that he is in
- Hamlet is informed of the ghost that looks like his father
- Ophelia is warned that she should not fall in love with Hamlet
- the ghost speaks to Hamlet and says that he is in fact his father and that he wants him to avenge his death by killing Claudius
- Hamlet swears to obey the ghost's wishes

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