[.ca] Hamlet: Oxford School Shakespeare (ISBN 0198320493)

To read or not to read:
I recently read the book Hamlet by William Shakespeare and I loved it. It contains all of the characteristics needed for a good story Such as murder, revenge, friendship, trust, life, and death. Hamlet also expresses how many different emotions people can have such as love, hate, anger, sadness, and much more. This story shows how important family and love are. In Hamlet a young boy, named Hamlet finds out that his father, the king, was murdered in his sleep and the king's brother wants to marry the queen. Soon after the wedding Hamlet is visited by the ghost of his dad. The ghost tells him that his brother, now the king, is the one that killed him with help from the queen. The ghost asks hamlet to avenge his death by killing the new king. Through most of the play hamlet has to decide what to believe. While he is doing that his girlfriend thinks he is going crazy because he has been acting so strangely. All of the other people in the castle also start to believe that he is insane. Is the middle of the play Hamlet says the most famous lines ever written and most people have probably heard them somewhere. What he says is, "To be or not to be, that is the question, for is it nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune of to take arms against the sea of troubles in by opposing in them. To die, to sleep, no more." Hamlet is the longest play ever written but it is very good. Without all of the things in it the story would not be so interesting. I am sure you probably have many questions about the book. To find out how the story ends you will just have to read the book. I am sure you wont be disappointed.