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CHAPTER 4 : DRAMA

SUMMARY OF HAMLET Act VII

The ship which Hamlet took for England was attacked by pirates and Hamlet was amongst the prisoners but he get back again in Denmark. Horatio and the King are bearing letters of Hamlet by sailors and on the letter to Horatio he gave description about his adventures and reasonable instructions. The letter to the king was on wild amusing. The king’s plan to send Hamlet to England failed and he is now back to Denmark to cause pain to the king. Laertes in France is an expert in swordsman and in the past Hamlet has the great ambition to have a duel with Laertes. Laertes can deep his sword in poison so that if it touches Hamlet, hamlet will died, Laertes was filled with violent anger and was easily persuaded and now the king wants to arranged a duel between them when hamlet will be back from Elsinore, Laertes would deep his sword in a poison and there will be a poison drink on the table made by the king for hamlet if he wins.

       At that time Horatio went to meet Hamlet and together came back to the castle. On their way to the castle of Elsinore, they passed a graveyard, there, they saw a funeral procession coming towards the graveyard and in that funeral there was the king, queen and certain courtiers and Laertes, when they saw this, they hide behind a tree. After sometimes they continue to watch the funeral, the realised it was the lovely Ophelia who was lying in the coffin. As they watch how Laertes was leaping into the open grave, Hamlet ran forward crying and jumped into the grave next to Laertes and Laertes hold him by the throat. Hamlet was not knowing that Laertes was so bitter towards him but he blamed him of his sister’s death and some courtiers and Horatio succeeded in separating them. Laertes wanted to attack him again but he did not because the king restrained him. After all this, Hamlet turns and went with Horatio.

par Claude Foumtum
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