Hamlet
Storyboard Text
- Expostion
- Conflict
- Rising Action
- Old king, Hamlet's father, has died. The king's brother Claudius has replaced him, stealing Hamlet's rightful place on the throne. He has already married Hamlet's mother.
- Climax
- Hamlet learned from his father's ghost that he was killed by Claudius.
- Falling Action
- Hamlet feels a responsibility to avenge his father's murder by his uncle Claudius, but Claudius is now the king and thus well protected.
- Resolution
- Hamlet already knows that Claudius and Gertrude are watching him so he becomes very suspicious when he enters his mother's bedroom. Enraged, Hamlet draws out his sword and stabs through the curtains without knowing that it was Polonius hiding behind it.
- After Hamlet kills Polonius, the King decides to send Hamlet to England so he can be executed. When Hamlet finds out why he was being sent to England, he decides to go back to Denmark.
- While Hamlet has a plan to kill his uncle, Claudius also devices a plan of his own to murder Hamlet. Assuming his scheme goes well, Laertes will challenge Hamlet to a duel but will fight him with an actual sword that is poisoned. If all else fails, Claudius will have also poisoned Hamlet's drink. During the actual duel, Queen Gertrude takes a drink from Hamlet's cup and is poisoned.
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