Act 3 Scenes 3-4

1.) Claudius begins to realize Hamlet knows he killed the old King.

2.)Exposition: We are introduced to the characters and the situation they are dealing with. We meet the ghost and find out all the confusion he has been causing. We find out how Hamlet feels about his mother's new marriage to his uncle. Claudius gives a speech to make it seem as if he is not performing incest. The ghost disappears and appears out of no where at different times but never speaks until it wants Hamlet to follow it. Hamlet does so not knowing what it wants or what it may do to him.
Inciting Event: The ghost speaks to Hamlet and tells him how his father died. He is told that Claudius poisoned him and he needs to get revenge on him for his father's death.
Rising Action: Hamlet begins to act crazy my freaking Ophelia out and not letting anybody know what is wrong with him. The king and Polonius realize there is something wrong with Hamlet so they spy on him and send Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Ophelia to find out what is wrong with him. Hamlet puts on a play in the attempt to get Claudius to confess he killed the old king.

1.) Claudius plans to send Hamlet to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern because he realizes he is a threat.

2.) Polonius is going to hide in Hamlet's mother's room to eavesdrop on the conversation they are having and then tell the king what he has heard.

3.) a. He states that he actually feels guilty about killing his brother and wants to be forgiven.
b. He also admits to being a bad person and being selfish because he wants to be forgiven but still keep the things he got from sinning, his brother's wife and the thrown.
c. He is in the perfect state for being killed because he is confessing and asking forgiveness to go up to heaven, this could be saying that he knows Hamlet is trying to get revenge and might kill him so he wants to be forgiven of all sins before he dies.

4.) It is odd because the king just stated he can not pray and doesn't know how to ask for such forgiveness.

5.)Hamlet was going to kill him but since he was praying and asking forgiveness Hamlet thinks he would be doing him a favor because he would go to heaven with his sins forgiven, unlike his father who had no time to ask forgiveness. Instead he decides to wait to kill him until he sins again.

1.) Polonius tells the Queen to tell Hamlet he has been burdensome and has been causing much trouble to many people including herself and the king.

2.) Hamlet finds out he is being spied on once again and calls Polonius a rat and then calls him a dead rat, meaning he is going to kill Polonius.

3.) This quote is odd because Hamlet is now trying to blame his father's death on his mother and claiming she had something to do with the murder.

4.) Gertrude doesn't understand why Hamlet is getting so mad at her and doesn't know her new husband killed her old husband. She also may think she has done nothing wrong and thinks marrying her husband's brother was the right thing to do.

5.) He says his father is a curly haired man, with beautiful eyes, and is like a Greek god. He says Claudius looks like a mildewed ear of corn.

6.) He is trying to tell his mother that King Hamlet was a kind, gentle, and powerful man who was so great it seemed as if a god had blessed him. He is saying that Claudius is like an overpowering weed that just wants control.

7.) It is disturbing because he not only telling us but his mother what he knows about his mother and his uncle's relationship.

8.) Hamlet stops yelling at Gertrude when the ghost appears to him. He tells him to not make things worse because she can't handle the horrible images and thoughts he is putting into her head and instead he needs to talk to her.

9.) Hamlet talks about how making good habits and resisting the bad will help make you a better person. This can reflect his craziness because he is getting into the bad habit of killing people, but it is to avenge his father. He is also getting into the habit of being rude to women and making them feel worthless and terrible. He also says how he likes to see other peoples plans not work out the way they wanted them to. This can also reflect his insanity because he is now changing his ways and getting joy out of people that have had failures.

10.) In act one the ghost was able to be seen by others and not just Hamlet. The ghost appeared to be there to cause confusion and then to explain why he was there. In act three the ghost is only seen by Hamlet and is trying to get Hamlet to help his mother be at peace. This can make Hamlet appear crazy because in scene three it seems he is just talking to himself and having hallucinations.