Hamlet Act1 Summary and Analysis
Hamlet Summary
Summary for Act I, Scene 1 and 2
Two 1 and 2 guards of king's castle discovered there is a mysterious object that is extremely look like just deceased King Hamlet that appears every night in the castle. Horatio, prince Hamlet's best friend suspects the emergence of the ghost and afraid it is someone's camouflage. Horatio tries to communicate with the ghost when it is appeared. The ghost refuses to speak with Horatio however. Horatio believes prince Hamlet will be the best person to make the ghost talks if it is really old King Hamlet.
Prince Hamlet mourns about his father's sudden death. He also is vitriolic toward his mother, Gertrude's remarriage with his uncle, now King Claudius. Hamlet re-understands his mother's love toward King Hamlet and berates the frailty and mutability of women: “Frailty, /thy name is women.” (Act I, Scene 2) Gertrude doesn't perceive her son's opposition toward her and Claudius' remarriage, she believes Hamlet is still immersing in the grief for his father's death. Gertrude tries to cheer Hamlet up, she advices Hamlet that death is a normal event that happens everyday in people's life and never be upset toward habitual event, “ Do not for ever with thy vailed lids seek for thy noble father in the dust: / thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, / passing through nature to eternity. ” (Act I, Scene 2) However, her indifferent attitude toward her husband's death contributes Hamlet's greater wrath toward his mother.
Summary for Act I, Scene 3
When Laertes, son of prepares to leave Denmark and begins his trip to France, Laertes warns Ophelia reject Hamlet's love for her: “ For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, / hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, / a violet in the youth of primy nature, / forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / the perfume and suppliance of a minute; / no more. ” (Act I, Scene 3 ) Ophelia, a fragile and dependent girl consents her brother's advice even she likes Hamlet as well.
Summary for Act I, Scene 1 and 2
Two 1 and 2 guards of king's castle discovered there is a mysterious object that is extremely look like just deceased King Hamlet that appears every night in the castle. Horatio, prince Hamlet's best friend suspects the emergence of the ghost and afraid it is someone's camouflage. Horatio tries to communicate with the ghost when it is appeared. The ghost refuses to speak with Horatio however. Horatio believes prince Hamlet will be the best person to make the ghost talks if it is really old King Hamlet.
Prince Hamlet mourns about his father's sudden death. He also is vitriolic toward his mother, Gertrude's remarriage with his uncle, now King Claudius. Hamlet re-understands his mother's love toward King Hamlet and berates the frailty and mutability of women: “Frailty, /thy name is women.” (Act I, Scene 2) Gertrude doesn't perceive her son's opposition toward her and Claudius' remarriage, she believes Hamlet is still immersing in the grief for his father's death. Gertrude tries to cheer Hamlet up, she advices Hamlet that death is a normal event that happens everyday in people's life and never be upset toward habitual event, “ Do not for ever with thy vailed lids seek for thy noble father in the dust: / thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, / passing through nature to eternity. ” (Act I, Scene 2) However, her indifferent attitude toward her husband's death contributes Hamlet's greater wrath toward his mother.
Summary for Act I, Scene 3
When Laertes, son of prepares to leave Denmark and begins his trip to France, Laertes warns Ophelia reject Hamlet's love for her: “ For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour, / hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, / a violet in the youth of primy nature, / forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, / the perfume and suppliance of a minute; / no more. ” (Act I, Scene 3 ) Ophelia, a fragile and dependent girl consents her brother's advice even she likes Hamlet as well.