Monday, January 21, 2013

that which occured in act one

1. Changing of the gaurd between Francisco and barnardo.
2. Horatio and Marcellus arrive.
3. Francisco goes to home.
4. The remaining three talk about the ghost.
5. The ghost appears and the comment that it looked like the former king.
6. Horatio talks to it and it promptly leaves.
7. The again start talking of the ghost and it's resemblance of the king and speculate on the reason for it's arrival. (we learn some of the laast king's history)
8. The ghost reappears and they again try to speak with it but as it is about to say something the sun rizes and the ghost flees.
9. They agree to go and tell Hamlet of the gost.
10. The new king has a monologue about his marrage to his brother's widdow and about his brother's death.
11. The king sends abasators to norway.
12. Laertes asks and is given permission to return to France.
13. The king and queen question Hamlet of his dark clothing eventhough the former king had just died/ been murdured.
14. Hamlet makes jabs at the unnatural marrage of his mom and uncle.
15. Hamlet is depressed about his father's death.
16. The king says it's good to morn but that he is mourning too much.
17. He asks if he can go back to callage but as a posed to Laertes he is not allowed.
18. Everyone leaves and Hamlet has a soliloquy about how his mom married both too soon and his uncle.
19. Horatio tells Hamlet of the ghost.
20.  Laertes tells Ophelia to not get close to Hamlet because he probobly can't marry him.
21. Polonius tells her pretty much the same thing exept in a demeaning and it is all about him way and she can't see him any more.
22. Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus are outside and the king is drunk and fireing the cannons and that the king is an idiot 
23. The ghost appears and wants to speek with Hamlet alone, the other two say no but hamlet goes anyway and the two fallow a little later.
24. The ghost tells hamlet that it is his father (No, I am your father - Darth Vader) and tells him he would die if tolled the secrets.
25. The ghost tells hamlet that he was killed by the current king.
26. Hamlet is to get revenge on his uncle but not his mom.
27. The ghost leaves and Hamlet swears revenge.
28. Hamlet's friends walk in and he makes them swear secrey repeadedly.
29. He then tells them that he is going to act crazy and makes them swear again.

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