1st Plot Point | Hamlet learned from his father’s ghost that he was killed by Claudius. |
2nd Plot Point | Hamlet starts acting crazy, while trying to figure out what to do. |
3rd Plot Point | Claudius sets spies (Rosencrantz/Guildenstern) on Hamlet, because of his craziness. |
4th Plot Point | Hamlet knows that the Ghost was telling the truth, when the play was put on. |
5th Plot Point | Hamlet knows that Claudius killed his father. |
6th Plot Point | Hamlet accidentally kills Polonius in Gertrude’s bedroom. |
7th Plot Point | Claudius sends Hamlet to England. |
8th Plot Point | Leartes comes to avenge Polonius’s death, Claudius tells him that Hamlet killed his father. |
9th Plot Point | Ophelia goes crazy, and drowns. |
10th Plot Point | Leartes and Hamlet fight in Ophelia’s grave. |
11th Plot Point | Claudius and Leartes set up a fencing match to try and kill Hamlet. |
12th Plot Point | Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, and Leartes die. |
13th Plot Point | Forinbras takes over Denmark. |
Hamlet Plot Points
July 20, 2019