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Jul 5, 2024 · Hamlet's reaction to the ghost. Summary: Hamlet's reaction to the ghost is one of shock and curiosity. He is initially skeptical but becomes determined to uncover the truth about his...
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The Ghost places two restrictions on Hamlet as he carries out revenge against Claudius. What are they? Is Hamlet able to comply with the Ghost's requests throughout the drama?
His instruction for Hamlet to enact revenge on Claudius is in service of political justice to protect the crown, but it is also just as much about personal justice. While Hamlet seems primarily concerned with the latter motive, the Ghost is keenly aware of both purposes.
The ghost begs Hamlet not to let Claudius get away with murder—or turn the throne of Denmark into “a couch for luxury and damnèd incest.” The ghost charges Hamlet to avenge him before vanishing. Though the ghost is gone, Hamlet vows aloud to do all the ghost has asked of him.
- Summary: Act I, Scene V
- Summary: Act II, Scene I
- Analysis: Act I, Scene v–Act II, Scene I
In the darkness, the ghost speaks to Hamlet, claiming to be his father’s spirit, come to rouse Hamlet to revenge his death, a “foul and most unnatural murder” (I.v.25). Hamlet is appalled at the revelation that his father has been murdered, and the ghost tells him that as he slept in his garden, a villain poured poison into his ear—the very villain...
Polonius dispatches his servant Reynaldo to France with money and written notes for Laertes, also ordering him to inquire about and spy on Laertes’ personal life. He gives him explicit directions as to how to pursue his investigations, then sends him on his way. As Reynaldo leaves, Opheliaenters, visibly upset. She tells Polonius that Hamlet, unkem...
The ghost’s demand for Hamlet to seek revenge upon Claudius is the pivotal event of Act I. It sets the main plot of the play into motion and leads Hamlet to the idea of feigning madness, which becomes his primary mode of interacting with other people for most of the next three acts, as well as a major device Shakespeare uses to develop his characte...
Jun 2, 2020 · In the middle of Hamlet’s attack, the Ghost returns to remind Hamlet that his real purpose is to avenge his father’s death. Gertrude cannot see the Ghost and pities Hamlet’s apparent madness. After the Ghost exits, Hamlet urges Gertrude to abandon Claudius’s bed.
The Ghost of the late king of Denmark appears and promptly withdraws into the night. Horatio recognizes the armour covering the Ghost and remarks that it is the very armour that the King wore "when he the ambitious Norway combated" (61).
