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Identity of HAMLET Drama

• Full tittle : The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark• Author : William Shakespeare• Type of work : Play• Genre : Tragedy• Language : English

Written at the first part of the seventeenth

century (probably in 1600 or 1601), Hamlet

was first performed in July 1602. It was first

published in printed form in 1603 and

appeared in an enlarged edition in 1604.

Publication

The Tragedy of Hamlet was first performed at the Globe Theatre in England.

The theater opened in 1599.

It was the home for many of Shakespeare’s plays.

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of

Denmark is a play, written by William

Shakespeare. It is one of his best-known

plays. The play is often just

called Hamlet. It had been translated

into Indonesia, untitled Hamlet,

Pangeran Denmark by Trisno Sumardjo.

The main story of Hamlet is a Danish prince

whose uncle murdered the prince's father,

married his mother, and claimed the throne.

The prince pretended to be feeble-minded to

trap his uncle, then killed his uncle in revenge.

SETTING

The story takes place in

the country of Denmark

(Kingdom of Denmark) in

the late medieval period.

Kronborg Castel, Elsinore, Denmark

Theme

The Danish Prince’s revenge against Claudius, his uncle who killed his father, married his mother, and claimed the throne.The theme explores treachery, revenge, and moral corruption.

Message

We should not commit a foul and evil action because it can hurt others.

Plot

This drama is advanced or linear groove that goes continuously and peaks.

CHARACTER AND CHARACTERIZATION

Hamlet• The prince of Denmark. The son of Queen Gertrude and the

late King Hamlet, the nephew of the present king, Claudius.

• The protagonist character.

• Hamlet is melancholy and cynical, full of hatred for his

uncle's scheming and disgust for his mother's sexuality. A

reflective and thoughtful young man who has studied at the

University of Wittenberg, Hamlet is sometimes indecisive

and hesitant, but at other times prone to impulsive acts.

Claudius • The King of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and

stepfather, Gertrude’s husband.

• The play's antagonist character.

• The villain of the play, Claudius is a calculating,

ambitious politician, driven by his sexual appetites

and his lust for power, but he occasionally shows

signs of guilt and human feeling—his love for

Gertrude, for instance, seems sincere.

Gertrude

• The Queen of Denmark, Hamlet's mother,

widow of Old Hamlet and recently married

to Claudius. Gertrude loves Hamlet deeply,

but she is a weak woman who seeks

affection and status rather than moral

rectitude or truth.

Polonius

• He is arrogant, conniving old man.

Polonius is the father of Laertes and

Ophelia.

• Claudius’ advisor.

Horatio

• Hamlet's close friend, who studied with the

prince at the university in Wittenberg. Horatio

is loyal and helpful to Hamlet throughout the

play.

Ophelia

• Polonius's daughter, a beautiful young

woman with whom Hamlet has been in

love. Ophelia is a sweet and innocent

young girl, who obeys her father and

her brother, Laertes.

Laertes

• Polonius's son and Ophelia's brother, a young

man who spends much of the play in France.

Passionate and quick to action, Laertes is

clearly a foil for the reflective Hamlet.

Fortinbras

• The young Prince of Norway, whose father

the king (also named Fortinbras) was killed

by Hamlet's father (also named Hamlet).

Now Fortinbras wishes to attack Denmark to

avenge his father's honor.

The Ghost

•The specter of Hamlet's recently

deceased father. The ghost, who claims

to have been murdered by Claudius, calls

upon Hamlet to avenge him.

THE STORY

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark - the son of King

of Denmark - who was being in abroad

heard his father, King of Denmark died.

After knowing it, Hamlet went back home to

Denmark soon however after Hamlet's

father died, his uncle, Claudius replaced the

throne of his father, became a king and

married Hamlet's mother (Gertrude). It

made him very sad.

Kronborg Castel, Elsinore, Denmark

On a dark winter night, a ghost appeared on the ramparts of the castle. Some Hamlet’s friends, included Horatio, saw the ghost who claimed himself as Hamlet's ghost father. Hearing the news, Hamlet resolved to see the ghost himself. In the night, the ghost appeared to hamlet and told that Claudius murdered him by pouring poison in his ear.

Hamlet is not sure that the ghost is really his father. He wanted to prove whether the ghost is really his father and also Claudius is his father’s killer. Hamlet pretend to be crazy to trap his uncle. In addition, Hamlet also invited some actors to stage a story that he wrote himself. The story is about a man who kills the king by pouring poison in his ear hole. And when the story is staged, Claudius reacted badly and he left the venue before the show ended. Hamlet believed he is guilty.

Hamlet wasn’t satisfied with that way, Hamlet

asked Gertrude about her father's death.

When Gertrude did not want to confess,

Hamlet became angry and when he saw

someone who was hiding behind the curtain,

he stabbed and killed him, because he

thought that he was Claudius. Unpredictably

he was Polonius, the king’s advisor. Laertes

and Ophelia, Polonius’ children were very sad.

Ophelia, Polonius' daughter had

actually fallen in love with Hamlet, but

after her father’s death. She was crazy.

She fallen into a river and drowned

then died.

After this, Claudius sent Hamlet with

his close friend, Horatio to England to

study there, even though the real goal

is to expel Hamlet from Denmark.

However in the middle of journey,

Hamlet and Horatio escaped from the

ship that took them to England and

eventually both of them returned

back to Denmark.

When Hamlet returned back to Denmark. There was an Ophelia’s

funeral procession. Hamlet was very sad for losing her and suddenly he

jumped into Ophelia’s grave when the funeral took place. Laertes, her

brother was angry of what Hamlet did. Laertes decided to kill Hamlet in

revenge for his father’s death . He challenged Hamlet to a sword fight.

Laertes’ sword had been poisoned by Claudius and also he made some

poisoned wine for Hamlet to drink in case that does not work.

At first Hamlet won the sword fight, but his mother drank

the poisoned wine without knowing to encourage, and died.

In the next round, Hamlet was cut with the poisoned sword,

but then stabbed Laertes with the same sword. Before dying

of poison Laertes told Hamlet about the plot and then died.

Hamlet killed Claudius with the poisoned sword. Horatio,

Hamlet's friend, told everyone about the murder of the old

king. Hamlet told everyone that the Norwegian prince,

Fortinbras, should be king, and then died from the poison.

Finally both Gertrude and Hamlet himself also died because

of the same poison.

THE END

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