Ghost Of Hamlet

Hamlet is a tale of despair and murder. Throughout the play, Shakespeare weaves a web of death, love, and betrayal that intrigued people of the time period and is still read widely today. The tale tells of the death of a king, and it follows his son Hamlet, the prince of Denmark. Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, takes the throne and marries his dead brother's wife only a month after his death. Soon after the ghost of the old king appears to young Hamlet and tells him he was murdered by none other than his brother Claudius, the new king. Hamlet then tries to prove Claudius' guilt and begins to slip slowly into madness. The key points in the plot of Hamlet are the meeting with the ghost, proving Claudius' guilt, and the ironic and untimely deaths of different characters. In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare draws a picture very complex and intriguing using imagery and diction.

From the beginning of his and his mother’s conversation Hamlet was very angry and on edge with her for being with his father’s murderer. Hamlet somehow knew someone was eavesdropping on their conversation as he had been spied on previously. He suddenly decides to act out of fury thinking how angry he was at Claudius and kills who’s behind the curtain, thinking it was Claudius. Hamlet realizes after that he killed the wrong man, it had been Polonius that he killed but he didn’t care much saying that Polonius was a fool. Hamlet sees the ghost again after and the ghost tells Hamlet he still must carry out his revenge for his father because he had failed .

Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, begins as an admired and noble young man. However, fate and the turn of events lead the tragic hero the depths of his fortunes. The tragedy starts with the death of the heroic King Hamlet. His brother, Claudius is the successor as King of Denmark and married the protagonist’s mother. When a ghost of the late King Hamlet appears, Hamlet’s downfall begins. The ghost explains to Hamlet that Claudius killed his father “upon my secure hour thy uncle stole with juice of cursed hebona in a vial, and in the porches of my ears did pour the leperous distilment, whose effect holds such an enmity with blood of man” (1001). Hamlet then feels like he must get revenge against Claudius and sets out to plot how it will happen. King Claudius senses something suspicious about Hamlet and sends for Hamlet’s two

Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, influences him by visiting Hamlet as a ghost and telling him to seek revenge. Hamlet believes his father and stages a play

In addition, Hamlets madness causes him to want to kill the king, Claudius, and clouds his thoughts. When Hamlets, fathers ghost comes to visit him, it tells Hamlet to get revenge on its death and to kill Claudius. While the ghost disappears Hamlet recounts what he has just done and states, “So, Uncle, there you are. Now to my word:/It is ‘Adieu, adieu, remember me!’ / I have sworn’t” (I.v.110-112). Hamlet is not even certain that the ghost is his father at first, yet he still aims to kill the king. His anger over his father’s death leads Hamlet to not think clearly, causing him to act out which in the end, leads to his death.

Prince Hamlet was terribly depressed. After being called to Denmark for his father’s funeral, he was shocked to find out that his recently widowed mother, Gertrude, had remarried his uncle, Claudius. Claudius has had himself crowned King although Hamlet was his father's heir to the throne. After Claudius was seen in the walking out of the murder scene in the play Hamlet directed closely depicting the death of King Hamlet, Hamlet suspected foul play.

This humor is used to justify Hamlet’s “madness” as it illustrates just what Hamlet has been dealing with in losing his father. Horatio tells Hamlet that he and some guards have seen the ghost of King Hamlet. Curious, Hamlet waits the next night for the ghost. Sure enough it appears and tells Hamlet that his uncle Claudius killed his father.

Hamlet is an interesting character who is mourning the recent death of his father, as well as the recent marriage of his mother to his uncle. So, in his grieving mind, when Hamlet hears news that some guards have seen the ghost of his father, he curiously investigates with them. To his dismay, the news is true, and Hamlet confronts his fathers ghost, who claims he was murdered by his own brother and asks Hamlet to avenge his murder. After calming down, Hamlet reasonably thinks that the ghost could be an evil spirit, so he sets up a test to prevent himself from blindly killing an innocent man. He sets up a play that mimics the murder of a powerful monarch in a way similar to the details of his father's death. Upon viewing the play, the king stands up and yells to stop the play and leaves quickly. Hamlet accomplishes his goal of finding out the truth without raising flags about him knowing the truth. Unfortunately Claudius suspects him after some questionable events and Claudius orders a try on his life. Claudius sends Hamlet to England with orders in a letter for the King to execute him stating “The present death of Hamlet. Do it England; For like the hectic in my blood he rages, And thou must cure me.” (4,3,69-71). When discovered by Hamlet in a passionate rage he replaces the letters with ones demanding his school friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to be executed in his place. Condemning men oblivious to their transgressions to death, a casualty of innocence that

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet the main character puts on an act of craziness. After hamlet had returned to Denmark after the news that his father, King Hamlet has died. On top of that his mother, Gertrude, got married to the late King Hamlet’s brother, Claudius, the new king. Hamlet then receives some surprising news from his friend Horatio, saying how a ghost that resembles the late king Hamlet has been appearing in front of the castle at night. Hamlet decides to stand watch at night with Horatio and the guards awaiting to see the ghost.

Hamlet first starts acting crazy when he first encounters the ghost of his father and finds out that his uncle actually killed him to get his wife and power. Hamlet becomes driven by his father's death and hate for his uncle, Claudius, who has stolen everything good from him and his father. Hamlet is emotionally unstable and tries to come up with a scheme to expose Claudius for what he has done and ultimately murder a murderer.

Hamlet believed the only way to get the truth about his father's suspicious death was by getting a reaction out of his uncle. He came up with an idea of a play where the characters acted a scene like what happened in real life.

The play Hamlet is a fable of how the ghost of a slain king comes to haunt the living with disastrous consequences. A rancorous ghost and a brother 's murder, lead the gloomy setting of Hamlet 's Denmark. Hamlet story opens with an encounter between young Hamlet, his dad 's ghost as well as the prince of Denmark. The ghost reveals to Hamlet that its murderer was his brother Claudius, who then rapidly wedded his widowed queen, Gertrude. As a result, the ghost presses Hamlet to seek vengeance on the man who stole his throne as well as his queen to which Hamlet consents.

“Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder,'; demands the ghost in (Act I, Scene 5, line 23). The fact that his own uncle could kill his father leaves Hamlet crazy and confused. Although Hamlet knows something is wrong in Denmark, he begins to question everything that the ghost has told him. When something is needed to be done, Hamlet is to busy thinking about his

This story begins on a cold night in Denmark Elsinore Castle when Hamlet’s trusted friend Horatio, and some guards see a ghost, the ghost of King Hamlet to be exact. The philosophical and complicated yet socially popular young Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, is busy fuming at his uncle Claudius who married his mom two days after his father's death. Hamlet suspects that they conspired to kill his father, and he even contemplates suicide. His hopes are lifted when he hears about the ghost.

The ghost tells him that he was murdered by Hamlet's uncle, Claudius, the current king. The ghost then asks him to avenge his death. Hamlet decides to act like he is crazy so he would have a better shot at killing him. While pretending to be crazy Hamlet has the Players act out a play that was similar to the murder of Hamlet's father. Claudius stopped the play half way through. After he sent everyone away Claudius started to pray and Hamlet sneaks up on him about to avenge his father's death. However, he decides not to kill him then because if Hamlet kills Claudius while he is praying then Claudius will go to heaven. He decides to wait until he has not had a chance to confess before he kills him. Hamlet is so against him going to Heaven instead of Hell because Claudius killed Hamlet's father before he had a chance to confess to God, so Hamlet believes he went to hell. Hamlet did not try and kill him again until the end of the play. At the end of the play Hamlet is sword fighting with someone that Claudius has made a plan with to kill Hamlet. The plan was that the guy would use a sharp poisoned sword so is Hamlet got cut he would be poisoned and die. The back-up plan in case Hamlet wins is that Claudius will offer Hamlet poisoned wine in celebration. However his mother drinks it. Hamlet was cut with the sword and after his mother died he stabbed Claudius with the poisoned and makes him drink all the wine. Then Hamlet dies (Shakespeare, (1011-1107). The two plays both