Why Do We Trust The Ghost In Hamlet

In act one scene five, Hamlet’s ghost father told him “revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.” This ghost is a questionable ghost. Hamlet’s friends don’t trust the ghost at all, they say because, it might tempt him into madness. Hamlet does not beleave in the ghost’s words just yet. He thinks the Ghost is questionable. He does not know for sure if it is his father or not, which makes him delay. Even though the Ghost compares himself to an angel and even though Horatio hopefully says, “Heaven will direct it” as Hamlet chases off after his father for answers. Questioning his father here delays him from making his final decision to kill his father’s murderer.
The ghost then goes on to tell Hamlet that as he was “sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me” in addition “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown.” Thus Hamlet’s father ask of him a favor, telling him that Claudius has corrupted Denmark and corrupted Gertrude so he asks Hamlet to kill Claudius, having seduced her in the foul lust of their incestuous marriage. The ghost tells Hamlet not to do anything to his mother, telling him to “Leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, …show more content…
But there’s a little ambiguity in the Ghost’s later instruction that Hamlet “Let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest” (which is the Ghost’s, and Hamlet’s, interpretation of Gertrude’s marriage to her brother-in-law. Claudius very nearly does confess because he knows he did do something wrong. he runs to his chapel and tries to confess his sin. Hamlet upon seeing Claudius pray decides not to kill him right there and then in the fear that his target will go to heaven and quickly leaves. In the end he decides confessing is really not worth it unfortunately Hamlet did not see this part but if he had he would have killed him for making him doubt