FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Horatio
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The Ghost
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Polonius
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The previous two nights, the guards had seen a silent ghost resembling Hamlet’s dead father. They ask Hamlet’s friend Horatio to watch on the third night, and he sees the ghost. Horatio convinces Hamlet to watch the next night. Hamlet confronts his father’s ghost, who tells him that Claudius murdered him.
Detailed explanation-2: -What had Bernardo seen at a prior watch? The ghost of King Hamlet. Why does Marcellus think Horatio would speak to the ghost? He is the most honorable one.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Ghost tells Hamlet a tale of horror. Saying that he is the spirit of Hamlet’s father, he demands that Hamlet avenge King Hamlet’s murder at the hands of Claudius. Hamlet, horrified, vows to “remember” and swears his friends to secrecy about what they have seen.
Detailed explanation-4: -Horatio in particular sees the ghost as an ill omen boding violence and turmoil in Denmark’s future, comparing it to the supernatural omens that supposedly presaged the assassination of Julius Caesar in ancient Rome (and which Shakespeare had recently represented in Julius Caesar ).