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HAMLET SUMMARY ENGLISH, Appunti di Inglese

Riassunto della trama di Hamlet, appunti di letteratura inglese.

Tipologia: Appunti

2020/2021

Caricato il 25/06/2021

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Hamlet can be defined as a revenge play. In fact,
during the Elizabethan age, revenge was not
accepted by the moral, but people loved to see it on
the stage. This play features the themes of love,
madness, relationships between mother/father and
son but also philosophy, the existence of God and
the meaning of theater itself. Moreover, as we know,
Shakespearean’s plays always leave us with a
question; in that case, it could be about appearance
and reality: how does one separate what appears to
be real from what actually is so? (actually, if I can
HAMLET
SUMMARY
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Hamlet can be defined as a revenge play. In fact, during the Elizabethan age, revenge was not accepted by the moral, but people loved to see it on the stage. This play features the themes of love, madness, relationships between mother/father and son but also philosophy, the existence of God and the meaning of theater itself. Moreover, as we know, Shakespearean’s plays always leave us with a question; in that case, it could be about appearance and reality: how does one separate what appears to be real from what actually is so? (actually, if I can

HAMLET

SUMMARY Basilicata Emanuela Agnese|IV C|

add that, this is a really common philosophical question that will appear in the works of Descartes, too). It is settled in the Middle Ages, in the royal castle of Elsinore, (situated in protestant Denmark). The plot is rather complicated: it has been only two months since Hamlet’s father’s passed away and his wife Gertrude married his brother Claudius, who now took the place of King in Denmark. But the country is threatened by Fortinbras, king of Norway (the sense of the menace is constantly felt during the play). The ghost of the King of Denmark appears to Hamlet and reveals that he was killed by Claudius so that he could take the throne. At first, Hamlet doesn’t believe in what he saw because, as a protestant, he doesn’t believe in ghosts and doesn’t even accept purgatory, which is where they are supposed to come from. Anyway he pretends to be mad so that he can carry out his plans more easily. Polonius, the king’s counsellor thinks that he is mad for his daughter Ophelia. Hamlet arranges a troupe of actors to play The Murder of Gonzago, which has a very similar story to his own: this expedient is called the play-within the play. After that Polonius gets killed by Hamlet, who then escapes to England but Ophelia, mad with love, drowns herself. At this point Hamlet is called back to duel with Laertes, the dead lover’s brother. Claudius poisons the swords so that he can get rid of his nephew but he ends up killing both of the duellers and even gets stubbed himself. Before he dies, Hamlet asks his best friend Horatio to tell his story and to let Fortinbras become king of Denmark. The last scene features the king of Norway entering and taking possession of the PAGE 3