Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 – 4 Summary – Y11

Scene 1 – rosencrantz and guildenstern tell Claudius there is nothing wrong with hamlet

Scene 2 – Hamlet tells the actors to perform a play, re enacting the death of his father , when Claudius killed him with the poison in his ear.

When the actors are performing the play, King Claudius leaves the play, angered, as he remembered what he did when he killed hamlets father.

Scene 3 – Hamlet was told to talk to his mother by polonius, but went to the Claudius to kill him.

Hamlet was going to kill him, but he was praying, which would mean be would go to heaven, if he repents himself, so hamlet doesn’t kill him and waits.

Scene 4 – hamlet is arguing with his mother, about how she married his father’s brother, which angered him, and how she was too ignorant to notice how he killed his father.

Whilst hamlet is angry, he is startled by a noise behind the curtains and stabs it thinking it is the king, and stabs polonius, without realising.

 

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