Summary of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Act I In Act I of Hamlet, the ghost of the king hamlet comes to the battlement, outside a castle in Denmark. Marcellus and Horatio ask the ghost to speak, but It remains silent. In Scene 2 the new king, King Claudius, King Hamlet's brother, is reprimandin...

What I believe to be the main and most important theme of Hamlet is that power corrupts and kills. This is evident in many parts of this play. In the first half of this tale, Shakespeare shows us that the power King Hamlet gave to his brother (free run of the castle, ability to get where the king...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare, is a tragic play which distracts the human instincts of innocents and guilt. Gertrude and Ophelia are faultless, while Hamlet and Claudius where are accountable for their deaths as well as others. unfortunately the anger and need for revenge resulted i...