Hamlet, heir to the throne of Denmark, returned home to find that his father was dead, and his uncle ready to marry the Queen and take the crown. His father’s ghost demanded that Hamlet avenge his murder. Even as he hesitated, unwilling to take any life, Hamlet killed the father of Ophelia, his lover, by accident.

After Ophelia drowned, Hamlet’s uncle Claudius offered to help her brother Laertes revenge himself on Hamlet in a sham fencing match. Laertes fatally wounded Hamlet, but both he and Hamlet’s mother were killed by poison intended for Hamlet. With his last breath, Hamlet avenged them and his father by killing Claudius.

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