The ghost is shocked that Claudius is still alive. Claudius has finally realized that Hamlet wants to kill him, so he comes up with his revenge plan against Hamlet. “Claudio banishes Hamlet to England for the murder of Polonius” (Mabillard 3). As soon as Hamlet arrives on English soil, Claudius plans to have him murdered. Claudius sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern on the ship with Hamlet with a letter to the king of England; the letter asks him to kill Hamlet (Weller 2). Hamlet intercepts the letter and realizes what is happening: he rewrites the letter saying that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern must be killed (Weller 2). The audience knows that killing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern has no consequences for Hamlet because they are not his true friends. Now that Hamlet sees what Claudius had planned, he is eager to finally seek revenge