Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2: samenvatting

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1. Claudius explains his marriage to Gertrude and sends Cornelius and Voltemand to Norway to seek restraint of Fortinbras.
2. With Polonius's consent, Laertes receives permission to return to France.
3. Gertrude and Claudius urge Hamlet to moderate his grief and abandon Wittenberg; Hamlet agrees to obey his mother.
4. Alone, Hamlet wishes he could die and bitterly condemns his mother's swift marriage to his uncle.
5. Horatio, Marcellus, and Barnardo report sightings of an armored figure resembling Hamlet's father.
6. Hamlet asks for secrecy, arranges to join their watch, and suspects wrongdoing.

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Hamlet turns from private grief toward suspicion. The reported armor helps prompt his decision to investigate the apparition.

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