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Before the Ghost of Hamlet’s father ever appears on stage, Horatio and the guards give a detailed description of the recently deceased King Hamlet, painting him as a good and courageous ruler. They are afraid of his specter, but their fear is due to the supernatural element rather than the man himself.
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Hamlet considers the ghost to be the devil because, during Elizabethan times, ghosts were often seen as evil spirits. He fears the ghost might tempt him into committing murder, a significant...
Jul 5, 2024 · The ghost in Hamlet serves to incite the action of the play by revealing the truth about King Hamlet's death to Prince Hamlet. It provides the catalyst for...
- 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...
Horatio and Marcellus are very suspicious of the Ghost, and fear that instead of actually being the ghost of Hamlet 's father, it may be some devil or sprite that seeks to trick Hamlet into...
When the ghost tells Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius and charges the prince with seeking vengeance, Hamlet takes the ghost’s words to heart. Though Horatio, Marcellus, Barnardo, and Francisco can all see the ghost, it’s possible that the spirit can choose to whom it is visible.
Hamlet begins speaking to the apparition, begging to know if it truly is the ghost of his father. He asks the ghost to tell him why it has chosen to leave its tomb and wander the grounds of Elsinore in full armor.
