DRJ #1

Act 1 introduces the beginning of the story. The old Hamlet died and his brother took over his kingdom and his wife. Ophelia is in love with young Hamlet. She wants to marry him. Hamlet has to pretend he’s already gone out of the sadness of his father’s death. That is a kind of situation that every of us have been through.

I’d like to discuss the new king. Despite what evil things he has done to his brother, I am inspired by his courage and ability to control his fear. Im sure he is sacred that he would be found out. But going for what he wanted, he has held a funeral and then a marriage as he planned. Indeed, he causes the biggest conflict in the story intentionally because he is running his plan. Again, im inspired.

As the first act, showing all the interrelationships and causes of the story, there is a lot of foreshadowing, like the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia; how “sad” the Queen is about her husband’s death; the spirit told Hamlet how the old king died. The biggest topic of this act is the new king and his hypocrisy. He talked about how sad the how kingdom is for the death of the old king. And then he marry with the old queen soon. “as ‘twere with a defeated joy, with an auspicious and a dropping eye, with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, in equal scale weighing delight and dole”