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      • The ghost tells Hamlet about the murder so Hamlet can avenge him. If you mean rhetorically, ghosts were standard characters in Elizabethan revenge tragedies, and Shakespeare uses his to establish plot and conflict in the play. The ghost is the catalyst for both. The ghost is also used in act three to rebuke Hamlet for his delay.
  1. In Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii, which dramatic convention does Shakespeare employ most? He introduces a major conflict. In the excerpt, Shakespeare characterizes Hamlet as. Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii. Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.

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  3. Definition. 1 / 132. The mood is dark, creepy, and sinister. Shakespeare establishes this mood by setting the opening scene of this tragic play just after midnight. There are three scared watchmen and a skeptical friend of Hamlet's out on the watch, participating in a ghost-hunt.

  4. The Ghost is one of the great mysteries of Hamlet. The play begins by showing us the Ghost appearing in front of several witnesses, who see it and discuss it among themselves, so we know from the outset that the Ghost is not simply a figment of Hamlet’s imagination.

  5. The mood is dark, creepy, and sinister. Shakespeare establishes this mood by setting the opening scene of this tragic play just after midnight. There are three scared watchmen and a skeptical friend of Hamlet's out on the watch, participating in a ghost-hunt.

  6. The ghost who appears in Act 1 of William Shakespeare ’s Hamlet serves a number of functions and contributes in various ways to the themes and effectiveness of the play. Those ways include...

  7. Intensely moved, Hamlet swears to remember and obey the ghost. Horatio and Marcellus arrive upon the scene and frantically ask Hamlet what has happened. Shaken and extremely agitated, he refuses to tell them, and he insists that they swear upon his sword not to reveal what they have seen.

  8. Where does the ghost appear during the play? The castle ramparts and the great hall of Elsinore Fortinbras’s tent and Hamlet’s bedchamber

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