Englisch
Hamlet
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Characters
Name: Hamlet
Age: 16/17 years
Profession: Prince of Denmark
Behavior: protagonist, contemplative, philosophical, irrational, melancholic, intelligent, revengeful
Relationships: son of King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude, nephew of King Claudius, loved Ophelia,
Horatio’s best friend
Values/feelings: strives to avenge his father‘s murder
Additional information: suicidal, poisoned by Laertes
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Name: King Hamlet (Ghost)
Profession: former King of Denmark
Outward appearance: ghost
Behavior: vengeful, tormented, manipulative
Relationships: Hamlet‘s father, Gertrude‘s former husband, Claudius‘ brother
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Name: Claudius
Profession: King
Behavior: power-focused, corrupt, manipulative, deceitful, ambitious, guilt-ridden
Relationships: poisened King Hamlet (brother), Hamlet‘s uncle and antagonist, Gertrude’s husband
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Name: Ophelia
Age: 16ish
Behavior: innocent, little autonomy, obedient, fragile
Relationships: Polonius‘ daughter, Laertes‘ sister, formerly beloved by Hamlet
Values/feelings: driven to madness by her father‘s death and Hamlet
Additional information: drowns (probably suicide)
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Name: Gertrude
Profession: Queen
Environment: royal, dependent on Claudius
Behavior: charming, naive, weak-willed, conflicted
Relationships: mother of Hamlet, widow of King Hamlet, married to King Claudius
Values/feelings: desire for high status
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Hamlet
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Name: Laertes
Behavior: loyal to his family, temperamental, impulsive, revengeful
Relationships: Polonius‘ son, Ophelia‘s brother
Values/feelings: holds grudges against Hamlet
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Name: Polonius
Profession: Chief counselor
Behavior: foolish, unwise, tedious, hypocritical, meddling
Relationships: father of Laertes and Ophelia, chief counselor to Claudius
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Marcellus & Bernado Voltemand & Cornelius Francisco 2 Clowns
Summary
Act I Scene I
• agitation in Denmark
• King Hamlet (Denmark) won war against Fortinbras (Norway) -> died soon after, got lands
• Young Fortinbras wants to recapture those lands (war preparation)
• Denmark arms as well (fear), castle is guarded
• at night Ghost appears to the guards (doesn’t speak) -> Horatio wants to inform Hamlet
Act I Scene II
• Claudius and Gertrude announce their engagement
• Claudius sends Voltemand & Cornelius to Norway -> hopes to avert the war diplomatically
• Talk with Laertes -> sends him back to France
• summons Hamlet to stop grieving King Hamlet‘s death and not to go back to Wittenberg -> agrees
• Hamlet is desperate, despises Gertrude
• Horatio tells Hamlet about the Ghost -> Hamlet wants to see it
Act I Scene III
• Laertes says goodbye to Ophelia -> warns her about Hamlet, doubts that Hamlet‘s love is serious
• Polonius comes -> says goodbye to Laertes, warns Ophelia as well, demands that she rejects Hamlet
Hamlet
?
Characters
Name: Hamlet
Age: 16/17 years
Profession: Prince of Denmark
Behavior: protagonist, contemplative, philosophical, irrational, melancholic, intelligent, revengeful
Relationships: son of King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude, nephew of King Claudius, loved Ophelia,
Horatio’s best friend
Values/feelings: strives to avenge his father‘s murder
Additional information: suicidal, poisoned by Laertes
?
Name: King Hamlet (Ghost)
Profession: former King of Denmark
Outward appearance: ghost
Behavior: vengeful, tormented, manipulative
Relationships: Hamlet‘s father, Gertrude‘s former husband, Claudius‘ brother
?
Name: Claudius
Profession: King
Behavior: power-focused, corrupt, manipulative, deceitful, ambitious, guilt-ridden
Relationships: poisened King Hamlet (brother), Hamlet‘s uncle and antagonist, Gertrude’s husband
?
Name: Ophelia
Age: 16ish
Behavior: innocent, little autonomy, obedient, fragile
Relationships: Polonius‘ daughter, Laertes‘ sister, formerly beloved by Hamlet
Values/feelings: driven to madness by her father‘s death and Hamlet
Additional information: drowns (probably suicide)
?
Name: Gertrude
Profession: Queen
Environment: royal, dependent on Claudius
Behavior: charming, naive, weak-willed, conflicted
Relationships: mother of Hamlet, widow of King Hamlet, married to King Claudius
Values/feelings: desire for high status
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Hamlet
?
Name: Laertes
Behavior: loyal to his family, temperamental, impulsive, revengeful
Relationships: Polonius‘ son, Ophelia‘s brother
Values/feelings: holds grudges against Hamlet
?
Name: Polonius
Profession: Chief counselor
Behavior: foolish, unwise, tedious, hypocritical, meddling
Relationships: father of Laertes and Ophelia, chief counselor to Claudius
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Osric Reynaldo
*
su py o
m n
s
former nt
m H
s summons him to
er
on am
a
s
d rv
th let
or fight Laertes se
em
to
friends
counselor spies on
Gertrude Claudius Polonius
father
uncle
mo
th er
siblings
Ghost father Hamlet Ophelia Laertes
per
be nd
form
frie
st
his
see him play
s
first
nd
Fortinbras‘ father Horatio Players
frie
Marcellus & Bernado Voltemand & Cornelius Francisco 2 Clowns
Summary
Act I Scene I
• agitation in Denmark
• King Hamlet (Denmark) won war against Fortinbras (Norway) -> died soon after, got lands
• Young Fortinbras wants to recapture those lands (war preparation)
• Denmark arms as well (fear), castle is guarded
• at night Ghost appears to the guards (doesn’t speak) -> Horatio wants to inform Hamlet
Act I Scene II
• Claudius and Gertrude announce their engagement
• Claudius sends Voltemand & Cornelius to Norway -> hopes to avert the war diplomatically
• Talk with Laertes -> sends him back to France
• summons Hamlet to stop grieving King Hamlet‘s death and not to go back to Wittenberg -> agrees
• Hamlet is desperate, despises Gertrude
• Horatio tells Hamlet about the Ghost -> Hamlet wants to see it
Act I Scene III
• Laertes says goodbye to Ophelia -> warns her about Hamlet, doubts that Hamlet‘s love is serious
• Polonius comes -> says goodbye to Laertes, warns Ophelia as well, demands that she rejects Hamlet
