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    This document provides a summary of the plot elements in William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" in 5 paragraphs: 1. The exposition introduces the death of King Hamlet, the marriage of Hamlet's mother Gertrude to his uncle Claudius, and Hamlet receiving a visit from his father's ghost demanding revenge. 2. The rising action involves Hamlet's efforts to confirm his suspicions that Claudius murdered his father and his plans for a cunning revenge. 3. The climax occurs when Hamlet, while conversing with his mother, mistakenly kills Polonius behind an arras thinking it is King Claudius spying on them. 4. In the falling action, Claudius

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    This document provides a summary of the plot elements in William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" in 5 paragraphs: 1. The exposition introduces the death of King Hamlet, the marriage of Hamlet's mother Gertrude to his uncle Claudius, and Hamlet receiving a visit from his father's ghost demanding revenge. 2. The rising action involves Hamlet's efforts to confirm his suspicions that Claudius murdered his father and his plans for a cunning revenge. 3. The climax occurs when Hamlet, while conversing with his mother, mistakenly kills Polonius behind an arras thinking it is King Claudius spying on them. 4. In the falling action, Claudius

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    This document provides a summary of the plot elements in William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" in 5 paragraphs: 1. The exposition introduces the death of King Hamlet, the marriage of Hamlet's mother Gertrude to his uncle Claudius, and Hamlet receiving a visit from his father's ghost demanding revenge. 2. The rising action involves Hamlet's efforts to confirm his suspicions that Claudius murdered his father and his plans for a cunning revenge. 3. The climax occurs when Hamlet, while conversing with his mother, mistakenly kills Polonius behind an arras thinking it is King Claudius spying on them. 4. In the falling action, Claudius

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    ASSIGNMENT-1

    LITERARY STUDIES

    Submitted by : Major Kamran Muzaffar Qureshi

    Department : English Language and Literature

    Discipline : Literary Studies

    Class / Session : MA 1st English (Evening)

    Submitted to : Ms Zenab Jehangir Khan

    Date of Submission : 25 June 2020

    ELEMENTS OF THE PLOT

    “HEMLET”

    1. Exposition. The exposition entails death of the king of Denmark, followed by


    the marriage between Hamlet’s mother and uncle, Claudius, against the propriety and
    moral plus social norms. Raising of suspicion in Hamlet’s mind regarding a engineered /
    conspired murder of his father as an aftermath of visitations by his father’s ghost also
    forms part of exposition in the plot. Lastly, the demand by the Old King Hamlet’s ghost
    to avenge his murder is also a part of exposing the plot.
    2. Rising Action. This element includes Hamlet’s efforts to confirm his
    suspicions. Once Hamlet finds out that Claudius killed his father, his main focus and
    priority becomes to plan a clean revenge. To avoid any risk, Hamlet starts acting /
    behaving insanely around his family and friends. Doing so, he becomes less susceptible
    and less of a threat for others. when Hamlet decides to murder Claudius, thus giving
    him an advantage.
    3. Climax. Hamlet already knows that Claudius and Gertrude are watching him
    so he becomes very suspicious when he enters his mother's bedroom. As the two
    converse, Hamlet knows someone else is in the room with them and is sure the King is
    spying on them behing the curtains. Enraged, Hamlet draws out his sword and stabs
    through the curtains without knowing that it was Polonius hiding behind it. Hamlet
    proceeds to moving the arras, finding Polonius's body on the floor and arguing a bit
    more with his mother. Bidding Polonius farewell, Hamlet drags the corpse out of his
    mother's bedroom.  
    4. Falling Action. Killing of Polonius by Hamlet brings him in direct conflict with
    the King. The King decides to send Hamlet to England for his execution. When Hamlet
    finds out the conspiracy, he changes replaces his name with the names of his escorts,
    which results in their execution, instead. Hamlet goes back to the palace. Gertrude and
    Claudius tell Hamlet that he is mad, thus leading Hamlet to storm off. 
    5. Resolution. Both, Hamlet and Claudius plan to kill each other. Laertes
    challenge Hamlet to a duel with an actual sword that is poisoned. If all else fails,
    Claudius will have also poisoned Hamlet's drink. During the actual duel, Queen
    Gertrude takes a drink from Hamlet's cup and is poisoned. Moments later, Laertes
    strikes Hamlet with the poisonous sword but not hard enough to kill him in the moment.
    Angered, Hamlet also hits Laertes with the sword once he finds out that it had been
    poisoned. After the mess of the duel, the Queen dies and King Claudius admits to
    poisoning the drink. Laertes falls on the ground consecutively, asking for forgiveness
    and revealing the King's plan only to die shortly after. Hamlet gives in and impales the
    King with the sword. Hamlet becomes the next to die and tells Horatio to stay alive so
    he can tell people what happened. Fortinbras marches in only to find everyone dead
    and crowns himself as the ruler of Denmark.

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