The Significance Of The Ghost In Shakespeare's Hamlet

The ghost in scene five, finally talked. It only wanted to talk to hamlet and only him. And in their conversation we found out that he is indeed Hamlet’s father. He told us that he was stuck in pugatory, until his sins are all purged, then he came back seeking for revenge. This gave the audience something to wander about, because if he needed to to purged, why would he commit further sins. This is comething I thought about and I came to multiple comclusions which I explained in the above subtitle. Upon finding out that the ghost is Hamlet’s father, Hamlet was quiet intrigued, and then the ghost told him that he was murdered, not poisoned by a snake like everyone though. And he specifically named king Claudius for murdering him. It then asked Hamlet to avenge his death, but most importantly to remenber him, showing that he is trying to purge his sins but his mind is clouded by hatred of bieng killed, which I do not blame him for. It is perfectly normal but if he is trying to get out of purgatory why would he do this, and …show more content…
I know that a man reputation during this era is a major part of society, but for him not to be able to trust his son so bad that he had to send someone to spy on him shows that Laertes must have done something really bad in the past for them not to have any line of trust emunating within their relationship. It would either be that Laertes has done something really bad, or that maybe Polonius is just plain paranoid. If such is the case then he must be a really annoying kind of perso. And like I said, the issue of trust is really going to be a large theme in this play, because first we have the trust between Old Hamlet, and Hamlet, and the mistrust between Hamlet and his uncle and even his mother, and now we have another relationship of mistrust developing within Polonius and Laertes. This theme like I said is going to have a really huge effect on how the play turn