Cats EyeJoin now to read essay Cats EyePrince Hamlet devotes himself to avenging his father’s death, but, because he is contemplative and thoughtful by nature, he delays, entering into a deep melancholy and even apparent madness. Claudius and Gertrude worry about the prince’s erratic behavior and attempt to discover its cause. They employ a pair of Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to watch him. When Polonius, the pompous Lord Chamberlain, suggests that Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter, Ophelia, Claudius agrees to spy on Hamlet in conversation with the girl. But though Hamlet certainly seems mad, he does not seem to love Ophelia: he orders her to enter a nunnery and declares that he wishes to ban marriages.
A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamlet seizes upon an idea to test his uncle’s guilt. He will have the players perform a scene closely resembling the sequence by which Hamlet imagines his uncle to have murdered his father, so that if Claudius is guilty, he will surely react. When the moment of the murder arrives in the theater, Claudius leaps up and leaves the room. Hamlet and Horatio agree that this proves his guilt. Hamlet goes to kill Claudius but finds him praying. Since he believes that killing Claudius while in prayer would send Claudius’s soul to heaven, Hamlet considers that it would be an inadequate revenge and decides to wait. Claudius, now frightened of Hamlet’s madness and fearing for his own safety, orders that Hamlet be sent to England at once.
Hamlet goes to confront his mother, in whose bedchamber Polonius has hidden behind a tapestry. Hearing a noise from behind the tapestry, Hamlet believes the king is hiding there. He draws his sword and stabs through the fabric, killing Polonius. For this crime, he is immediately dispatched to England with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. However, Claudius’s plan for Hamlet includes more than banishment, as he has given Rosencrantz and Guildenstern sealed orders for the King of England demanding that Hamlet be put to death.
In the aftermath of her father’s death, Ophelia goes mad with grief and drowns in the river. Polonius’s son, Laertes, who has been staying in France, returns to Denmark in a rage. Claudius convinces him that Hamlet is to blame for his father’s and sister’s deaths. When Horatio and the king receive letters from Hamlet indicating that the prince has returned to Denmark after pirates attacked his ship en route to England, Claudius concocts a plan to use Laertes’ desire for revenge to secure Hamlet’s death. Laertes will fence with Hamlet in innocent sport, but Claudius will poison Laertes’ blade so that if he draws blood, Hamlet will die. As a backup plan, the king decides to poison a goblet, which he will give Hamlet to drink should Hamlet score the first or second hits of the match. Hamlet returns to the vicinity of Elsinore just as Ophelia’s funeral is taking place. Stricken with grief, he attacks Laertes and declares that he had in fact always loved Ophelia.
In 1453, after having been consigned to the prison of the King, Hamlet and Polonius embark on a daring hunt for Ophelia, a wealthy Englishmen. Upon arriving in Spain, they learn from the king that they were on a fishing trip on a wild goose named the Falcon. Upon arriving in Spain, they learn that when an arrow enters the falcon’s jaws, Ophelia and five other birds fall to the ground in the process. They have no choice but to kill Ophelia after the arrow is delivered to her and turn her into a wild goose.
The fate of the original three of those who killed Ophelia is unknown.
In 1453, when Ophelia was about 25 years old, she and her brother were taken into captivity to their prison on the island of Valenau. Their mother was not permitted to give birth to a child. After this, her only means of raising their young was by being born in a wooden cage, which was turned into a miniature coffin, which was hung down in the jail wall.
In 1456, a group of young Spanish princes—Eluurge de Vallin, the governor of Valencia—set out as far away as Veracruz, Spain, using the power of a wagon to sail the coast of Spain. For several hundred years, Elsinore had been threatened by a plague. On arrival, they discovered an evil dragon lurking in the earth and decided to destroy it by blowing candles at it. Following an unsuccessful attack, Elsinore convinced some of the dragon’s followers to open an iron door to the prison. After opening it, they found many other dragons, such as the one they had summoned. However, in 1456 they were attacked and killed by a Spanish messenger and set to work to save Spain from impending war. This was as no one could have predicted how the plague would turn out. When Elsinore finally came face to face with the Spanish ambassador, Valenau had already given her a letter calling for a truce to stop the spread of the disease. When Valenau sent a message, Elsinore was suddenly bitten by a vengeful beast and died. Elsinore was then held captive by his friends and her body was sold into slavery. The story of Elsinore’s death has become one of the central themes of the series and will certainly be heard throughout the entire series.