Day: October 21, 2015

Orphelia is crazy with grief for her father’s death, and claudius gets worried that the murder will have serious consequences. Laertes demands retribution, and his distress is even more when he sees his sister.

Fortinbras is planning to attack Denmark, and Hamlet is thinking about whether he is not doing enough in his revenge. Fortinbras is planning to attack Denmark because at the beginning of the story, Hamlets father killed Fortinbras’ Father and Fortinbras is looking for revenge.

Hamlet is brought to the king and thyen tells Claudius where the body of Polonius is. After that Polonius gets very worried about Hamlet and tells him to leave to England as Claudius plots to kill him.

Hamlet refuses to tell Rosencrantz and Guildenstern where he hid the body of Polonius, so that Claudius did not find out.

Claudius was expecting to hear about the outcome of his plot, which was to get Hamlet killed, but then learns instead that polonius is dead.

Polonius hid behind the curtains to overhear Hamlet’s conversation with his mother, waiting to kill him. Hamlet then confronts Gertrude about her guilt of marrying claudius.

The king planned to send Hamlet away from Denmark, and tries to ease his guilty conscience, giving Hamlet an opportunity to avenge his father.

Hamlet has a go at the actors on their art, but the performance of their play was interrupted by the king and after that hamlet is called to go see his mum. Hamlet told the actors to improve their performance, and not to add anything to the scene. The king interrupted the play because, it showed too much of a similarity of him killing his brother.