Mystery And Mystery In Hamlet

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In Hamlet, there’s interest classic story as tradition playing stories that Shakespeare wrote. Maybe in the modern time, people won’t scary for classic story as compare to the past time. Then the place where's the place take in platform before the castle during the guard’s on duty at night. I think the guards tried to figure out who's the ghost as if that place have a horror story. The mood of Act 1, Scene 1 was horror and mystery. For example, of horror as “Horatio: Yes. It fills me with fear and wonder.” (Hamlet, Act I, Scene 1, p.2) For mystery, “Bernardo: Last night, at about one o’clock, Marcellus and I- (Hamlet, Act I, Scene 1, p.2) Bernardino: The one of the guards at the Castle of Elsinore. Marcellus is one of

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