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Hamlet - College Essay

Hamlet

•Long, long ago in Elsinore, Denmark, some guys named Bernardo and Francisco were hanging out on the castle battlements.
•Francisco is done with his shift and heads out. Marcellus, yet another watchman, shows up with a man named Horatio.
•Because it's dark outside, no one can see anything, much less each other, so there's a lot of "who's there?" and "what?" and, in one very interesting case, "holla!"
•Everyone keeps talking about this mysterious "thing" that's been appearing lately, and by lately, we mean the last two nights. Bernardo starts to explain what he saw. It was a…
•Just then, a ghost shows up.
•The guards all think the ghost looks suspiciously like the recently ...

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wager with the King of Norway about who could kill the other person first in combat. Old King Hamlet won so he got to take a bunch of Norway's land. The king of Norway's son, young Fortinbras, is ticked off and has raised an army to get his family's land back. He also wants revenge for his dad's death.
•Because the kingdom of Denmark is preparing for war with Norway, Horatio's number one concern is that a dead man walking about in ghost form might be a sign that Denmark is going to lose.
•Horatio is busy detailing just how bad an omen this is, with many references to Julius Caesar's death and all the nasty things that came before it, when the ghost comes back.
•The guards all scream until the ghost leaves.
•Then they recount the episode: 1) they were silly for trying to strike at the ghost, and 2) the ghost was probably going to say something, except the cock crowed and scared it off.
•Horatio suggests they tell Prince Hamlet about the ghost that looks an awful lot ...

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Added: 3/9/2011 01:19:06 PM
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Category: Shakespeare
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