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sonic untoward event, determines to rid himself of his uephewby sending him to England.
This project is aided by Ihun'et killing Polonius whom he mistakes for the king and who was concealed behind the arras to listen to the conversation between the queen and her son who had demanded an interview. Hamlet is by an accident made prisoner by some pirates as he is on his way to England, but he escapes and unexpectedly returns to Denmark. Previously, he discovers that the ambassadors are instructed by the king's letters to cause him to be put to death on his arrival in England, which letters he exchanges for others containing the same directions for their deaths.
During his absence Ophelia, distracted through her father's death and her own misfortune, destroys herself, and her brother Laertes, urged by false rumours concerning
his father's demise, rebels against the king ; but he abandons his intention on being told that Hamlet did the deed. A stratagem is got up by the king in which Laertes basely consents to dispatch Hamlet by secret means. Claudius wagers six Barbary horses against six French swords with Laertes that in a dozen passes he does not exceed Hamlet by three. Hamlet consents to make trial and is first wounded by Laertes who has treacherously used a poisoned weapon. In a scuffle they change swords and Laertes is himself wounded by the same deadly rapier. The king had prepared a poisoned chalice with which he determined to end Hamlet if Laertes failed. In the contents of this, the queen, unconscious that it is drugged, pledges Hamlet and is poisoned. Laertes, in the agony of death, confesses his own perfidy and accuses the king, and Hamlet with the sword of Laertes revenges himself by
stabbing the infamous Claudius, and the whole concludes with the news of the death of Rosencrantz and Guilderstern through letters forged by Hamlet and a eulogium on
the unfortunate prince by his friend Horatio and the choice of young Fortinbras for King of Denmark.
MORAL.
In this play we see exemplified the proverbial saying ' murder will out '; for, by introducing the ghost of the murdered king, Shakespeare intended no doubt to intimate that though secrecy may veil the dead of the murderer for a time. Providence that suffers not a sparrow to fall to the ground unnoticed " will, by supernatural agency, both expose and punish the aggressor.
In the death of the queen we are warned against participating in the fancied success of villainy, and in that of Laertes against suffering our passions perfidiously to lead us
to seek a secret revenge without a regard to either justice or our own honour. He has our contempt, but might have commanded our pity and admiration.