Ghost story

Two books. Two different plots and ideas. But there are similarities among the sea of differences. Both of these books have the common idea of the house, or a spirit in the house, being an important part of the story, even though it is not necessarily in the category of antagonist or protagonist. Today, I will compare two books with many differences and make a verdict on which is better in my opinion. I enjoy horror novels, and after looking at the cover and reading the back, I was…

Excluding incest, Hamlet gives the ultimate foundation of family matters and how the members deal with them: “While most preteens and teens can’t relate to all the murder and intrigue in Hamlet’s story, they certainly can relate to dysfunctional family dynamics, which is, essentially what Shakespeare’s Hamlet is all about.”(Armstrong). Armstrong strongly agrees that Hamlet’s plot and situation between the fictional characters is a realistic predicament…

thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don’t really know what they are or where they are. They’re not very well understood. You don’t know what they want from you. So it’s the kind of thing you don’t even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that’s unknown and mysterious is very scary” (qtd. in Pack). The world and its old history is filled with folklore and tales of unexplainable phenomena. One area that is a hotspot for these stories is the Eastern Shore of…

In August Strindberg’s play, The Ghost Sonata, I found it to be very unusual, leaving me wondering if any of the characters were real or imaginary. The setting of The Ghost Sonata takes place in a Swedish town where there is a multiple story apartment building as the backdrop. The occupants of the apartment building live according to class, meaning those considered as the upper class live on the top floor, the middle class live on the ground floor, the lower class live below, and the poor are…

except for one. They only character in this play that did not sin was Horatio. Since Horatio did not sin and was nice to everybody he was the only one to survive throughout the play. The main two character that started causing all the problems was the ghost and Hamlet. Hamlet doubted himself and others because he didn’t know the truth about his father’s death. Everybody was doubting each other and ended up sinning. Hamlet was wrath, sloth, and had a lot of greed. Since Hamlet done all those…

concluded that ghost are real. Ghost aren’t only just real when they have something left to do in the world like unfinished business before they cross over to the other side also known as The Afterlife Realm. Usually with cases like that people see it as a joke but in actuality we as living breathing humans aren’t the only living things roaming the earth. Paranormal activities been happening since the 1800’s and was never really understood till the 1950’s. There is not just ghost sightings, but…

his mother married his uncle and in such a short time after the death of his father. Horatio, one of Hamlets close friends, is a guard of the castle who sees the dead king’s ghost and believes it could mean trouble for the land of Denmark. Horatio decides to tell Hamlet of this ghost sighting in hopes that if it is the ghost of the dead king, he will talk to his son, Hamlet.…

play, The Ghost confronts Hamlet and says that if he ever truly loved his father, he will, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder,” (Act 1 Scene 5). Hamlet promises to prove his love for his father and get revenge on the person who committed the crime. He spends the rest of his time on earth trying to figure out a way to get revenge, which he loses sight of everything that he has. While so focus on revenge,…

the most possible outcome of the incomes. Horatio from William Shakespeare Hamlet would be a very good example of this special person. He is the best friend of Hamlet and is the first to see the ghost of his father. Horatio is also what would be known in more modern literary terms as the wise man of the story. He is right beside the main character through his discovery in the entire play. Without Horatio in this drama it would lose the insights, foreshadowing, and knowledge after Hamlet has…

judge that Hamlet could have been under the influence of drugs or was hallucinating when he sees the ghost. However, this is confirms to have been a true story in the making. In this regard, Hamlet is not the only person who had witnessed the ghost of his father. In fact, the ghost of his father is seen to have appeared before his best friend Horatio and Marcellus, who argued about the reality of the ghost. At the end of it all, the duo decided and consented to tell the same to Hamlet as they…