FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Hamlet was crying and acting crazy
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King Hamlet’s ghost
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The Queen in the arms of an unknown man
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Horatio and Marcellus meeting secretly
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Detailed explanation-1: -Horatio says that he came to see King Hamlet’s funeral, to which Hamlet curtly replies that Horatio came to see his mother’s wedding. Horatio agrees that the one followed closely on the heels of the other. He then tells Hamlet that he, Marcellus, and Bernardo have seen what appears to be his father’s ghost.
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: -On the guards’ platform at Elsinore, Horatio waits with Barnardo and Marcellus to question a ghost that has twice before appeared. The Ghost, in the form of the late King Hamlet of Denmark, appears but will not speak. Horatio decides to tell his fellow student, Prince Hamlet, about the Ghost’s appearance.
Detailed explanation-4: -Marcellus and Bernardo have seen a ghost on the castle battlements for the past two nights. Horatio comes to investigate and Marcellus informs the other guards that Horatio has said ‘’tis but our fantasy, / And will not let belief take hold of him’.
Detailed explanation-5: -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 ).