Hamlet Notes Act II Summary. Act II, Scene ii  Within the castle, Claudius and Gertrude welcome Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two of Hamlet’s friends.

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Hamlet Notes Act II Summary

Act II, Scene ii  Within the castle, Claudius and Gertrude welcome Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two of Hamlet’s friends from Wittenberg.  Hamlet’s erratic behavior and his apparent inability to recover from his father’s death, the king and queen have summoned his friends  Polonius enters, announcing the return of the ambassadors whom Claudius sent to Norway.

Act II, Scene ii Continued  Voltimand and Cornelius enter and describe what took place with the aged and ailing king of Norway: the king rebuked Fortinbras for attempting to make war on Denmark, and Fortinbras swore he would never again attack the Danes.  The Norwegian king has sent a request back to Claudius that Prince Fortinbras’s armies be allowed safe passage through Denmark on their way to attack the Poles.

Act II, Scene ii Continued  Relieved to have averted a war with Fortinbras’s army, Claudius declares that he will see to this business later. Voltimand and Cornelius leave.  Polonius declares that the prince is mad with love for Ophelia. He shows the king and queen letters and love poems Hamlet has given to Ophelia, and proposes a plan to test his theory.  Ophelia confronts Hamlet, allowing the king and queen to see for them selves whether Hamlet’s madness really emanates from his love for her.

Act II, Scene ii Continued  Polonius attempts to converse with Hamlet, who appears insane; Polonius comments that while Hamlet is clearly mad, his replies are often “pregnant” with meaning (II.ii.206). He hurries away, determined to arrange the meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia.  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern discuss Hamlet’s unhappiness about recent affairs in Denmark. Hamlet asks why they have come.

Act II, Scene ii Continued  The trumpets blow, announcing the arrival of the actors (or “players”). Hamlet tells his friends they are welcome to stay at Elsinore, but that his “uncle-father and aunt-mother” are deceived in his madness. He is mad only some of the time and at other times is sane.  Hamlet resolves to devise a trap for Claudius, forcing the king to watch a play whose plot closely resembles the murder of Hamlet’s father; if the king is guilty, he thinks, he will surely show some visible sign of guilt when he sees his sin reenacted on stage.

Act II, Scene ii Continued  This will be the proof Hamlet needs to prove Claudius’s guilt. “The play’s the thing,” he declares, “wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king” (II.ii.581–582).