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Panicked Claudius leaves the stage immediately. In the play, the king dies as the poison is poured in the ear by the enemy. When the play starts and the moment of assassination arrives. Hamlet believes that the play will reveal if Claudius was the murderer. Hamlet wasn’t sure if he should believe in his father’s ghost. The play is similar to King Hamlet’s murder. He asks the troupe to perform ‘The Murder of Gonzago’.
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Hamlet gets an idea of exposing his father’s murderer during the play. One day, a group of theatre actors visits Elsinore. It is in this scene the famous ‘to be or not to be’ is spoken. Polonius assumes that Hamlet’s lost his mind after breaking up with Ophelia. He later insults her for returning love letters, and rejects her advances, leaving Ophelia in a state of distress. Hamlet also realizes that she has been trying to spy on him. However, she fails to understand him and tells her father about Hamlet’s behavior. Both Claudius and Polonius use Ophelia to spy on Hamlet. Ophelia, daughter of Polonius, and Hamlet shared an intimate relationship. Also, Hamlet realizes that his mother and step-father sent them as a spy as well. However, they find him very quizzical and mentally challenging. Claudius and Gertrude ask their help to get the truth out of him. Meanwhile, his university friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, arrive at the palace. She checks on him with the help of Claudius and Polonius, the court attendant. Queen Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, also worries about him. Horatio and the guards are aware that Hamlet has “put an antic disposition on”. Here, his melancholiness is termed as depression in modern terms. Hamlet pretends to be insane and suffers from acute depression at the same time.