help on shakespeare's hamlet?

Question

i need to figure out whats going on in hamlet 1, lines 91-124.
can anybody tell me whats going on or give me a link to something that tells me whats going on? plz help

Answer 1

http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm

Try the above link for help on Hamlet designed for young students.

Sue

Answer 2

~I presume you are referring to Horatio's speech wherein he introduces Fortinbras and Hamlet as well as the historical construct from which the plot is devolves. Try Cliff notes or Enotes until your reading compehension is equal to the task of reading the play on its own. Hamlet is probably, without question, the most famous play in the English language and therefore the most analyzed and discussed. Get off of YahooAnswers and go to a legitimate resourse. Shakespeare is not that hard to read or understand, and well worth the effort, once you stop being afraid of it and put in the (little) work that is required to enjoy it.

Answer 3

OK here you are.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/hamlet001.html

An analysis of the play by Shakespeare

http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/hamlet001.html

Characters
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Protagonist: Hamlet

Antagonist: Claudius

Foils of Hamlet: Laertes, Fortinbras, Polonius

Hamlet:

Son of a murdered Danish king (who was also named Hamlet) and nephew of the present king, Claudius. Hamlet suffers great mental anguish over the death of his father, the marriage of his mother to the suspected murderer (Claudius), and the clash between his moral sense and his desire for revenge against his father’s murderer.

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xHamlet.html#Hamlet


Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 4

Do you mean this
HORATIO
That can I;
At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,
Whose image even but now appear'd to us,
Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,
Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,
Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet--
For so this side of our known world esteem'd him--
Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact,
Well ratified by law and heraldry,
Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands
Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:
Against the which, a moiety competent
Was gaged by our king; which had return'd
To the inheritance of Fortinbras,
Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,
And carriage of the article design'd,
His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,
Of unimproved mettle hot and full,
Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there
Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,
For food and diet, to some enterprise
That hath a stomach in't; which is no other--
As it doth well appear unto our state--
But to recover of us, by strong hand
And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands
So by his father lost: and this, I take it,
Is the main motive of our preparations,
The source of this our watch and the chief head
Of this post-haste and romage in the land.

I think that the guards have seen a ghost in previous nights and in this soliloquy Horatio is trying to explain who he thinks it is, a previous king named Fortingbras, slain by Hamlet who took his lands.

Answer 5

Where does this start? Every addition is diffrent, so which line does this start with. Which act/scene is this is