Hamlet: Act 1.

We jump into this story knowing that the problem is that King Hamlet was murdered. It starts with the guards at the grave site. They see the ghost which is believed to be the spirit of King Hamlet (Hamlet's father), but it will not speak to them. They decide they want to have Hamlet come and talk to him because they believe the spirit will then talk. Also, in this act we see that Hamlet's mother marries his uncle (his father's brother) only two months after the death of his father. Angered by this he goes off about it. Later we see his best friend, Horatio, come in with Marcellus. They inform him of their encounter with the spirit and he agrees that he wants to talk with him. Next scene we see Laertes and Ophelia talking. Ophelia is in love with Hamlet, but Laertes says that she will get hurt if she stays with him and that their father does not approve. Laertes and his father think know that he is to be king and think that she cannot be so she will just end up heartbroken. Polonius (Ophelia and Laerte's father) will not allow it and tells her that. Ophelia, however, believes that Hamlet loves her and that he is good. She says that they are meant to be and what he says is wrong. Her father will not believe it and warns her to stay away from him. She says she will obey. When Hamlet meets with the ghost he finds that his uncle was the one who killed his father. The ghost wants Hamlet to get revenge on this man and Hamlet intends to. When Hamlet meets back with his friends (Horatio and Marcellus) they are anxious to find what happened. The only thing he would tell was that there was a villain and that he did come across a real ghost that night. He then made the two swear upon his sword that they would not say to anyone anything that happened that night.