William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

The ghost first appears to three soldiers on guard: Bernado, Francisco, and Marcellus, along with Horatio, a friend of Hamlet and visitor to Denmark. Bernado and Marcellus desire to reveal the ghost they have witnessed for the past

The ghost then appears again on the same exact time that it had struck the night before. Horatio tries himself to speak to the ghost. The ghost remains silent as Horatio tries to talk to it. Horatio tries and tries and keeps failing to get a response back. This gives him the idea that if the ghost really is the ghost of King Hamlet it will have no problem speaking to itś living son. He gives ther guards the okay that they should tell Hamlet about what they have been visited by the past two nights.

The first soliloquy ends with the arrival of Horatio, the hero’s closest friend (“Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.”), and Marcellus, who escort the prince to the ramparts of Elsinore to view the ghost of Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, which they have seen. At one a.m. the ghost, ironically a sinner suffering in Purgatory (West 110), reveals to the protagonist the extent of the evil within Elsinore – the “human truth” (Abrams 467).

First, the ghost may be appearing at that time to make clear that his presence is real and not a figment of the imagination. In Act I, he appears when Horatio's shift begins. This might be so Horatio can see him first-hand, seeing that Horatio is the only watchman Hamlet will actually believe.

Horatio’s first assumption is that the ghost has returned because of some resolved issues, he talks to the ghost and ask the ghost to speak and tell him what he can do to ease the spirits pain and bring glory to his name. Horatio then assumes that the appearance of the dead king’s ghost is a warning that something unpleasant is going to happen to their country. Third reasoning that Horatio states for the appearance of the ghost is that the ghost may be attached to a treasure or prized item that is causing the ghost to be troubled.

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the play’s namesake is introduced to readers as a spurned young man who has just lost is father, King Hamlet, to a suspicious death. Hamlet believes his uncle, now King, Claudius had something to do with King’s death; a reason Hamlet believes this is because Claudius and Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, married only two months after the tragedy. Soon after Hamlet is introduced, he discovers from Horatio that there has been a ghost appearing throughout the castle every midnight. This very ghost is believed to be that of Hamlet’s father. As Hamlet met the ghost he discovered that the ghost was King Hamlet! Not only was the ghost his father, the ghost told Hamlet that his murderer now wears the crown of Denmark. Hamlet devises up a plan to act like he has flown over the cuckoo’s nest in order to throw Claudius off and examine his guilt.

Hamlet knows the ghost is the ghost of his father, and is afraid to admit it. Hamlet tries to cover his fear of revenge up by acting as if he doubts the existence of the ghost.

For two nights in succession, just as the bell strikes the hour of one, a ghost has appeared on the battlements, a figure dressed in complete armor and with a face like that of the dead king of Denmark, Hamlet’s father. A young man named Horatio, who is a school friend of Hamlet, has been told of the apparition and cannot believe it, and one of the officers has brought him there in the night so that he can see it for himself.

During their night watch, Hamlet, Horatio and Marcellus see the ghost. Hamlet breaks free from Horatio and Marcellus and meets the ghost who says that he is the spirit of Hamlet’s dead father. The ghost explains to Hamlet how that his brother Claudius murdered him and that, as his son, Hamlet must avenge his dead father. Hamlet swears to carry out the revenge before the arrival of Horatio and Marcellus. Shakespeare uses this sudden revelation to drive the plot through the use of dramatic irony.

It then vanishes into the woods. Hamlet pursues the ghost, leaving behind Horatio and Marcellus. The ghost informs him of his foul and unnatural

They recognized the ghost to be King Hamlet. King Hamlet had been killed by his brother, Claudius, who is now married to Hamlet’s wife, Gertrude. Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is depressed about his father’s tragic death and is furious that his mother, Gertrude, married Claudius. I believe that the ghost in Hamlet is real, can choose who he is visible to, and symbolizes that there is an issue in Denmark. “Was the ghost real?” has been one of the common questions asked about the story Hamlet.

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, tension rises in act one as the people of Denmark becomes wary, suspicious and distrustful. The rising tension is represented through imagery of the king’s ghost appearance and title character’s black clothing, as well as the comparisons to fire and snakes. To begin, in scene one, four minor characters verbalize their uncertainty regarding the appearance of the king’s ghost and what may become of Denmark because of this. Horatio, a friend of Hamlet’s, says that the ghost is a sign of bad things to come: “...As harbingers preceding still the fates/ And prologue to the omen coming on/Have heaven and earth together demonstrated/Unto our climatures and countrymen” (1.1.122-125).

prince’s good friend, to prove to him that the ghost is real, as he says it is but a fantasy. They are extremely nervous because they do not know what the appearance of the King’s spirit could mean. When the bell beats one, the spirit of Old King Hamlet appears. The men, astounded, wonder what this can mean. The spirit of dead Old King Hamlet appearing three

The play opens up with Bernardo exchanging guarding shifts with Francisco. He is shortly met up with another watchman, Marcellus and his friend, Horatio. Bernardo and Marcellus share their sighting of a ghost who closely resembles the image of the deceased King Hamlet. Horatio feels uncertain about these claims, but then suddenly and briefly witnesses the ghost himself. Horatio attributes the sighting of the ghost to a possible military engagement between Denmark and Norway. The ghost emerges once more and remains silent, despite the men’s fruitless attempt to get it to speak. The ghost is frightened away by the crowing of a rooster. The men all agree to inform Prince Hamlet about the ghost. Claudius and Gertrude, king and queen of Denmark,

Allan Massie’s article offered insight into some of the things that are easily missed when being a novice reader of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The most overlooked aspect of the play seems to be the role of the ghost. While in today’s time, people always see ghosts as made up beings and always being a part of works of fiction that was not always the case. Massie points out that today ghosts are seen as “theatrical conventions” (Massie par.2), but that in Shakespeare’s time, “belief in ghosts was common” (Massie par.2). The use of the ghost of Hamlet’s father needs to be seen as a plausible being in the play instead of as a fake creature that the creatures only saw in a hallucination.