FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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If the ghost is an evil spirit or actually his father.
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If his mother murdered his father.
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If Polonius is guilty.
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If Ophelia really loves him.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Later Hamlet wonders whether he can trust the Ghost: “The spirit that I have seen / May be a devil” (III. i.). If the Ghost is a devil rather than the spirit of his father, then the possibility exists that the Ghost aims to manipulate him into committing a sin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet is quick to believe the Ghost because the spirit’s words confirm his worst fear: Claudius murdered King Hamlet. For the Elizabethan/Jacobean audience who attended the first performances of Hamlet, murder of a king was in itself cause for alarm.
Detailed explanation-3: -Act 1, Scene 5 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-4: -Intensely moved, Hamlet swears to remember and obey the ghost. Horatio and Marcellus arrive upon the scene and frantically ask Hamlet what has happened. Shaken and extremely agitated, he refuses to tell them, and he insists that they swear upon his sword not to reveal what they have seen.
Detailed explanation-5: -In this scene, Prince Hamlet encounters a ghost that claims to be his deceased father, King Hamlet. The ghost tells Hamlet that his brother, the new King Claudius, murdered him and married his wife, Gertrude.