Act 1 scene 1

there is a platform at one end of the room ,with the beautiful chairs for the king and queen. polonius, leartes, hamlet, Ophelia, voltemand, Cornelius and other lords and ladies are waiting around the platform. music plays Claudius and Gertrude come in. CLAUDIUS (to everybody) the memory of our king, my dear brother, is still fresh in all our hearts. the sadness of his death will be with us forever, but we should begin to think of other things so I Married with the queen(my brother’s wife) with your permission .Young fortinbras of Norway is planning to attack our country he wants to take back from us his father’s lost land so Claudius wrote a letter to fortinbras ‘s uncle the king of Norway( he is weak he knows nothing about his nephew’s unlawful plans for war against us. Claudius told Cornelius u voltemand to take the letter to the king quickly they don’t have much time. they take the letter and leave then LAERTES asked Claudius to let him return to France because he just come back to Denmark to see him to see him become king so Claudius agree because LAERTES’s father was very important to Claudius. Gertrude asked hamlet to stop wearing those black clothes he should be friendly to our new king and Claudius told hamlet that all men lose their fathers and son must feel sadness but too much sadness is not grief of real man the dead, even a crime against reason and you will be the next king after me so I want you stay here and not return to your studies at wittenberg because you are the most important person at my court also GERTRUDE asked hamlet not return to wittenberg also hamlet agree to not return to wittenberg. hamlet was so angry and unhappy about Gertrude that his father was only been dead for two months but less than a month after his death this woman married to my uncle. Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo come and Horatio told hamlet that they saw his father’s ghost on guard on the castle wall he dressed soldier and he was more sad than angry so hamlet told them it will be our secret I’ll meet you on the castle before midnight I should talk with him so they leave hamlet think that all this is not well no good will come of this something bad’s going to happen .