Hamlet 3.3 3.4

1. Hamlet has caused the memory of murdering King Hamlet come back to Claudius and make him feel guilt.
2. Exposition: Background information of Fortinbras. King Hamlet is dead, Gertrude has married Claudius.

Inciting Event: the ghost appears and speaks to Hamlet and tells him about his murder.

Rising Action: Hamlet acts mad, Ophelia gives back love letters, Hamlet is spied on, Hamlet decides not to kill Claudius yet.

1. Send them to England and have them killed.
2. Spy. He plans on hiding in Gertrude's room and listen to what Hamlet says to her.
3. He admits to murdering King Hamlet. He says he cannot pray.
4. Because Claudius says he cannot pray.
5. Hamlet does not kill the King because he is praying and Hamlet thinks that if he is killed while praying he'll go to heaven. Hamlet wants the King to go to hell so he decides to wait until he is engaging in sin.

1. Polonius tells Gertrude to tell Hamlet that his actions are causing a lot of trouble and he is making problems for the King. He tells her to be stern with him.
2. Hamlet says this because he has discovered that someone is spying on him. He says he is a rat and his life is only worth one ducat.
3. Hamlet is in a way accusing his mother of killing his father, or at least helping in the murder.
4. Because Hamlet speaks to her in a rude way, and she doesn't think she has done anything wrong.
5. He says his father looked like a man blessed by the gods, and Claudius looks like a mildewed ear.
6. Claudius is a lesser man, that brings down the people around him.
7. It is disturbing because Gertrude is sleeping with her old husbands brother.
8. The ghost of his father appears again. He tells him to continue with the point, kill Claudius. And it tells him to help his mother, to tell not to sleep with Claudius.