In order to gain a full appreciation of the passage above, it is required to understand how Elizabethan life viewed ghosts in general.
During the Elizabethan Era, Christianity was divided in Western Europe into two with the Catholics and Protestants. Catholics and Protestants views were different from one another. Catholics believed that the dead’s spirit goes to Heaven, Hell, or the purgatory, a place where spirits can cleanse their sins away so they can go to heaven. Protestants did not believe in a Purgatory and these spirits are demons sent from Hell to convince good people to do bad acts. England was a Protestant country under Queen Elizabeth but some of the population were still Catholic. When the Ghost says his lines, the Catholic and
During the Elizabethan Era, Christianity was divided in Western Europe into two with the Catholics and Protestants. Catholics and Protestants views were different from one another. Catholics believed that the dead’s spirit goes to Heaven, Hell, or the purgatory, a place where spirits can cleanse their sins away so they can go to heaven. Protestants did not believe in a Purgatory and these spirits are demons sent from Hell to convince good people to do bad acts. England was a Protestant country under Queen Elizabeth but some of the population were still Catholic. When the Ghost says his lines, the Catholic and