Ghost

actions, “Thaw and resolve itself into a dew/Or that the Everlasting had not…She married – O most wicked speed!” (Act 1, Scene 2) These uncertainty feelings of Hamlet additionally develop when he meets his father’s ghost. Acting as a reasoned person, Hamlet is hesitant that the ghost he spots is actually his father's, “I am thy father’s spirit”(Act 1 Scene 5 – Line 9). To show his love towards his father, Hamlet is asked from him to revenge his death, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural…

There is one point in the book when Hamlet is standing behind Claudius who is on his knees. The reason he doesn’t kill him then is because he thinks he’s confessing his sins. He states that to kill him now would mean that he would go to heaven. He reasons that it wouldn’t be fair to his father who is forced to spend time in purgatory. He decides he’ll wait until Claudius has sinned and then kill him before he has the chance to confess again, thus sending him to hell. “Then trip him, that…

prince spends most of the play trying to determine what he should do after he has a conversation with the supposed ghost of his father. By Act 4, Scene 4, Hamlet has been convinced that the ghost was correct - that his father was murdered by his uncle, who had been in an immoral relationship with Hamlet’s mother that had started possibly even before his father was killed. Although the ghost told Hamlet to avenge him, Hamlet has not yet followed through, and the only person who has died by…

“Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today,” said Benjamin Franklin. Many consequences can come about when a person procrastinates. In the tragedy, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is faced with a challenge from his ghost father. His father wants Hamlet to get revenge on Claudius (his stepfather) for poisoning him. A tragic flaw is a trait in a character that ultimately leads to their own downfall and/or others downfalls. Hamlet's tragic flaw is that he is a thinker rather than a…

Lear faced with a loss of reason. At the end of the novel, Antoinette becomes totally unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy and realise who she is. She believes she has seen a ghost in the mirror which in reality was herself. The statement Antoinette makes while looking in the mirror: “I saw her – the ghost. The woman with streaming hair. She was surrounded by a gilt frame but I knew her”, suggests Antoinette inability to realise that what she sees is herself. However this inability…

The plots of Hamlet and “The Lion King” are similar because, throughout each story, the main characters both have their father killed by their uncle, see their father’s spirit, and put off their responsibility. Though they differ in details, they are extremely similar in some of the most significant events. In Hamlet, Claudius tried to hide the fact that he killed King Hamlet, and he only confesses before his prayer when he says “Oh, my offence is rank. It smells to heaven. / It hath the primal…

affect the present and future. In Act I, Hamlet’s encounter with the ghost supports that its appearance is due to the memory of the living. Hamlet, mourning for his father, remembers King Hamlet better than anyone and it is this memory that brings Hamlet to confront the ghost. This meeting reveals the driving force of the play; Hamlet seeks to fulfill his dead father’s orders to avenge his death. At the beginning of the play the Ghost…

viewing and describing Shakespeare’s play, “Hamlet”. An important theme in the play, as it seems is revenge. In her article, Maria Mendes tries to explain in what ways Hamlet was trying to figure out if Claudius had really killed his father as the Ghost suggested. She states, “the Prince of Denmark seeks a solution to end suspicions about the presumed murder of his…

Readers may notice that the ghost only talks to Hamlet when no one is around, while others have perceived him but none has spoken to him. This would fall right along with what we know about hallucinations and schizophrenics today. Illusion can occur where there are preexisting stimuli; mass hallucinations based of a stimulus are not unheard of and are not rare. He also only sees the ghost during the night which news studies suggest there might be a connection…

when thou shalt hear.” Because his brother killed him buy poured poison in his ear. The hamlet decides he is going to pretend he in insane in-order to put his uncle on edge so its easier to kill him. In Hamlets defense he does stop and ask it the Ghost really is his father and not the Devil “May be a devil, and the devil hath power T’ assume a pleasing shape”, wondering if this is all a trick by Satan to send him to hell. But them he starts to think…