“Ghost’s During the Elizabethan Era”

The Ghost in Hamlet cleared out the event that Hamlet was uncertain of. The spirit clarified the death of King Hamlet, and caused Hamlet to perform his evil deeds. The Ghost’s request to avenge him caused the death of Hamlet’s family, friends, and eventually himself; therefore, the spirit can be viewed as evil because it failed the four tests that was set by Lewes Lavater and the Church.

The Ghost’s appearance troubles Hamlet again in a different way at the end of Act Two, when Hamlet questions whether or not the apparition he has seen is really the ghost of his father. He believes that it is likely that what he saw was really an evil spirit trying to trick him into sinning, for, as he says, “the devil hath power / T’assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps…abuses me to damn me” (2.2.628-32). His concern is legitimate; however, it causes him to delay further due to his worries about sin and what could happen to him should he decide to take action if the Ghost is in fact evil. When Hamlet attempts to work himself into a frenzy by insulting himself and climactically cursing Claudius with caustic epithets, he is incapable of maintaining his emotion and he orders his brains to turn about, bringing himself back down to logic and reason. He feels that he cannot act without some sort of proof of the truth of what the Ghost has said, and therefore he arranges to “catch the conscience

Hamlet’s attitude in Scene 2 shows his respect and kindness for the people who work for him, which is seen when Horatio and Marcellus come to tell Hamlet about his father’s ghost. More so his hatred towards his uncle for blowing off the death of his father and so quickly after, the remarriage of his mother to his uncle.

Seeing the ghost shows him that something has gone wrong in the chain of being. Thanks to Claudius’s greed he has begun to spread this blindness to the queen and she has “stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty” (Hamlet: III.iv.105-106). Not only has it been spread to the queen with her sinful actions, but also to all the people the king used to spy on Hamlet and tried to use to cover up Hamlet Sr. murder. He has changed the way they see, and taken away there good heartedness in order to serve the person they have been told is the rightful

In Elizabethan times , people believed in ghosts. Even authoritative figures wrote stories about them. The topic of apparitions was treated with reverence and respect. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet at a time when a very considerable conversation raged in England about the nature of ghosts. They also believed in witches. Elizabethans give us our superstitions of Friday the 13th, that special day every year full of people scared of black cats. Elizabethans didn’t know that some of the things that they thought to be paranormal actually were not.

The Ghost of Hamlet's father is a foil for Hamlet. The ghost is introduced so to reveal information that is not blatantly revealed to us yet. The king gives us some explanation of why Hamlet wants revenge. The king tells us of his death and introduces the fact that it was a murder and tells that the murder was committed by his brother. Through the conversation with the ghost he gains more fuel for the anger he has about his mother’s marriage. In the discussion with Hamlet and the

Many Elizabethan bedsides were haunted from “the terrors of the night”. Back then their ghosts were nothing like the pasty blobs we call ghosts now. Theirs were quite gruesome. Ghostly visitations were claimed to have been very unpleasant. Not only this, but they claimed it cast them into a state of spiritual confusion.

In the first Act in the play, Hamlet is the last person to see his deceased father. Granted, Hamlet is the only one to speak to the ghost and he is by himself when he does, but the guards and even Horatio, “Before (his) God, (he) might not this believe. . . Without the sensible and true avouch. . . Of (his) eyes. (Act I Scene I Lines 56-8)” serve as witnesses that there is indeed a ghost and it is not just a figment of Hamlet’s imagination.

In the beginning of play we find out that Hamlet father's ghost has been seen by Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo. Horatio advises them that they should tell Hamlet about seeing the ghost of his father. Since he was not able to get the ghost to speak to him. He does not think that the ghost will refuse to speak to his son Hamlet. When they tell Hamlet that they saw the ghost, he insisted on going back with them to speak with the ghost. The ghost made Hamlet follow him so that he could inform him of how he was murdered by Claudius hands and orders Hamlet to avenge his death. Hamlet decides that he needed to find more evidence to support the claim the ghost made. However, the Devil can adopt a pleasing form that can

Seeing ghosts in any tradition is an omen of something negative. Marcellus directly said, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 4). As a tragedy, death is certainly one of the many themes of Hamlet. The ghost, a dead person’s soul, tells Hamlet that his father’s death was caused by his uncle. By suggesting revenge as a way to fix his father’s sins, the ghost’s dialogue foreshadows the death of the Claudius. Given the circumstances of the public agreeing to usurp of the throne, Hamlet’s unusual behavior, and involvement of outside characters, Hamlet’s journey to seek vengeance will include the death of other characters. The ghost acted as the firebrand that initiated a series of deaths by simply suggesting the death of one individual: Claudius. Without much effort, Hamlet is persuaded to avenge his late father and unknowingly take his own life. Marcellus’ statement ultimately became the truth after the death of both Claudius and Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, and some other uninvolved characters like Ophelia and Polonius.

At the basis of seeing this ghost Hamlet questions himself as well wants to investigate whether the ghost is a good or evil spirit , and by doing so he decides to question it for a purpose to confirm that it is telling the truth that Claudius indeed killed him. This

When King Hamlet’s Ghost is first introduced, Hamlet is not even the first to see it. Marcellus and Bernardo are the first the ghost decides to appear to, and whenever Horatio sees the ghost some time later, he recognizes the figure as Hamlet’s father, and so he tells Marcellus and Bernardo the story of Hamlet’s father’s death. Hamlet after seeing the ghost for the first time, wonders whether or not this ghost is truly who he says he is. He thinks that maybe there is some other motive the ghost could have. At first, Hamlet is suspicious of the ghost and thinks that it only wants to harm him and persuade him to do things that he would not normally do.

The ghost was not looking to do Hamlet any good. The ghost had his own agenda. The ghost revealed to Hamlet the truth about the murder of Hamlet’s father. The ghost also told him who was to blame: “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown” (I.5. 38-39). The ghost ignited a rage inside of Hamlet. Revenge replaced the grief in Hamlet’s heart. The play does not reveal if the ghost is the devil or the ghost of Hamlet’s father. However I do not think that Hamlet’s father would have wanted to end another life to make up for his. The deaths that occur in the play could have been avoided if the ghost had never appeared. The truth would have come out eventually and maybe Hamlet would have a clear head by that time. If the ghost was the devil I am sure that he was pleased with what transpired in the play.

There are many contradictions towards the existence of ghosts. The most controversial fact is that ghosts do exist. However, I am writing to argue against the existence of ghosts and that those who believe in them are in fact 'being fooled'.

    Does the ghost in Shakespeare’s Hamlet conform to the standards for ghosts in the days of the dramatist? This essay will answer this and other questions about the ghost in the drama.