Hamlet

Shakespeare's "Hamlet" is a play about Prince Hamlet's life after his father's death and mother's remarriage. This is a life changing event for Hamlet and immensely affects his personality.

Before his father's death, Hamlet was a very charismatic and loved prince. He went into a deep depression after his father died and his mother remarried to his uncle. Soon after the marriage, about two months after, he spoke with the ghost of his father. The ghost of King Hamlet told Prince Hamlet the story of how he was murdered by the prince's uncle that remarried his mom. He told the prince to avenge his death by killing his uncle and leaving his mother alone.

Hamlet decides to trust the ghost but not completely. He devises a plan to put on a play that depicts the murder of King Hamlet and monitor his uncle's reaction to see if he has any guilty expressions. After the play, Hamlet realizes that the ghost was telling the truth, so he decides to go ahead and kill his uncle. However, he has trouble working up the courage to do it.

Hamlet finally gets around to murdering the king by stabbing and poisoning him at a duel between himself and Laertes. At this same duel, the uncle and Laertes had a plan to kill Hamlet with a poisoned sword, they succeed. In this scene, Laertes is stabbed with the poisoned sword along with Hamlet, and the uncle is murdered after accidentally poisoning his wife, the queen and Hamlets mother.