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Shakespeare’s Hamlet opens with a group gathering to see King Hamlet’s ghost. The prince is notified of this appearance. Hamlet returned for his father’s funeral and is outraged about his mother’s marriage to his uncle, Claudius. Hamlet visits his father’s ghost and is notified that Claudius actually murdered King Hamlet. With his friend, Horatio, Hamlet sets out to avenge his father’s death. However, Hamlet’s darling Ophelia is ordered by her father to discontinue her relationship with Hamlet. Hamlet is enraged. Hamlet decides to play out the events of his father’s death as a performance in hopes of gaining a response from Claudius. Hamlet’s mother scorns him for this act and he unintentionally stabs Ophelia’s father, mistaking him as Claudius himself. He is once again visited by his father and hides the body. Hamlet foils a plan by Claudius and escapes death, but in his return he finds that Ophelia has died after grieving her father’s death. Ophelia’s brother and Claudius ally against Hamlet and poison a sword for a duel. Hamlet’s mother, however, winds up poisoned. Hamlet kills Claudius, Ophelia’s brother dies, and Hamlet dies from the poison on the sword.
Throughout this play, Hamlet experiences conflict, as evidenced by anger, betrayal, grief, and revenge. Hamlet's character evolves, creating even more complicated external and situational conflict. Hamlet transforms from sharp and dignified to confused and enraged.
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