1. The turning point is when Hamlet goes crazy. This is right before the play starts. He becomes obsessed with catching the king being guilty.
2. Exposition: When the guards see the ghost and Horatio comes to talk to them. He tries to talk to the ghost unsuccesfully, but notices that its the king's ghost. He then goes and finds Hamlet thinking the ghost may try to talk to him. Hamlet is moping around because his dad died and his mom married her brother in law. The king tells Hamlet to stay around. The guards then find Hamlet and tell him about the ghost. He finds it and talks to it. The ghost tells him to go kill Claudius because he murdered the king.
Inciting Event: When Hamlet decides to seek revenge for his father by killing the current king. He is mad and decides to pretend to be crazy so people don't suspect that he knows about the murder. Hamlet also makes Horatio swear an oath of secrecy.
Rising action: Hamlet has gone crazy in the eyes of the king and his followers. They worry about him and try to figure out what's wrong. Polonius decides it must be that Hamlet loves his daughter. So he uses her to try and find out. Once Hamlet finds out she is being used to get to him he becomes mad and is driven closer to insanity.
1. The three are sent to England to be killed
2. Polonius is going to spy on them and listen to see if Hamlet confesses his feelings about Ophelia.
3. Hamlet does not think the king is able to pray because of his sins.
4. Hamlet is worried the king will be forgiven of his sin while he is praying so waits for a time when the king is sinning.
1. He tells her to be harsh with Hamlet.
2. He's calling Polonius a little rat who runs around under the radar and spies on people.
3. He is accusing his mother of the murder, which she had no part in.
4. She's worried about Hamlet's behaviour and wants to know why he's acting out against her.
5. His father is like a god. He is fair and noble, a good commander, and a good husband
His uncle is like just the opposite worthless and rotten.
6. Hamlet is trying to say his uncle is not supposed to be a ruler and that he has taken a place not belonging to him.
7. Hamlet is imagining his mother in bed with a man. This is disgusting and is incest.
8. The ghost tells Hamlet to stop because his mother is a good one.