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The king of Denmark is death. The queen, Gertrude, has almost immediatly married the death king's brother, Claudius. Hamlet, prince of Denmark, met his father's ghost, who tells him that Claudius is guilty of his murder and askes Hamlet to take rivenge. Hamlet pretends to be mad in order to gain time and observe the behaviour of the king and the queen. His sensitive mind is undecided about what to do and even he contemplates suicide. Hamlet, than asks the actors in a court play to insert a scene like that of his father's murder, in order to observe the king's reaction.

The king's reaction confirms the ghost's rivelation: Claudius is guilty of Hamlet's father's death. By mistake Hamlet kills Polonius, Ophelia's father, who Hamlet loves. Ophelia goes mad and drawnes herself.

Polonius's son, Laerthes, swers revenge. The king uses Laerthes to kill Hamlet and a fencing match is organized and Laerthes on the king's advice uses a poisoned sword. In this tragic duel Hamlet is killed as planned but before that he mortally wondes Laerthes and stabes the king. The queen, by mistake, drink a poisoned cup intended for Hamlet and dies.

Commento

The central dilemma of the passage, summed up in the famous line "to be or not to be", seems to be the choice between action and inaction. This is generally taken to relate Hamlet's incapacity to carry out the revenge on his uncle. Hamlet's choice on words and images chows his profound pessimism. After some general statements about death and life and in which he speaks about human sufferings, Hamlet exameines the thought of life after death. This is something which nobody realy knows anything about and everybody fear. It is this thought that makes us enduke life sufferings and prevents us from committing suicide. This is a clear reference to Hamlet's incapacity to act.