FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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The ghost may be the devil in disguise.
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The ghost may be telling the truth.
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The ghost may be a pleasing shape.
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The ghost may be working for Claudius.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Hamlet, the ghost is a symbol of Hamlet’s father who is killed by Claudius. Its propose is to demand Hamlet to avenge its death. Although the ghost only appears three times in front of Hamlet, it is a specify role to develop the whole story and plot.
Detailed explanation-2: -The ghost tells Hamlet that he is, in fact, the ghost of his dead father. And there’s more: the ghost claims that Claudius killed him, taking his throne and his wife in the process. He wants Hamlet to kill Claudius in revenge. Shocked, Hamlet agrees and vows to avenge his father’s death.
Detailed explanation-3: -This is shown through Hamlet’s soliloquy in the act 2, scene 2, line 578, “May be the devil, and the devil hath power T’assume a pleasing shape. Yea, and perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy, “. Hamlet is saying how he will pretend to be crazy, so he can take advantage if his weakness and madness.
Detailed explanation-4: -When he does at last kill Claudius in the dying moments of Act 5, he does so suddenly, without forethought, poisoning the King in revenge for conniving to poison him and for accidentally poisoning Gertrude.