Ghost Of King Hamlet Analysis

In Act I scene V, the ghost of King Hamlet intends to ensnare Hamlet because it seeks revenge against Claudius for killing him. The ghost of King Hamlet announced to Hamlet that he did not die from a snake bite but instead was killed by Claudius during the time of sleep. With Hamlet being desperate to communicate with his father, he is attentively listening to every word that the ghost of King Hamlet gives to him. The ghost of King Hamlet knows that Hamlet loves his father very much therefore he takes advantage of him by announcing that he must “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” (I.V. 31). The ghost of King Hamlet is trying to entrap Hamlet into murdering Claudius by reassuring him that the deed or killing Claudius must be done
in order for the ghost of his father to go to peace. The reason for the ghost of King Hamlet to entrap Hamlet instead of helping him is because the ghost really doesn’t care whether Hamlet is in need. The ghost is trying to get his own problems to be solved by manipulating Hamlet’s emotions. In another instance, the ghost of King Hamlet continues to take advantage of Hamlet’s emotions by giving specific details of how he died, “ And curd, like eager droppings into milk,/ The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine” (I.V. 74-75). The ghost of Hamlet is continuing to lure Hamlet into thinking that it is all Claudius’s fault by describing the specific details of his death. By reassuring his death in detail, it persuades Hamlet that his father’s death was painful and cruel therefore making Hamlet to actually want to kill Claudius. Overall, the ghost of king Hamlet is entrapping Hamlet into doing what he wants him to do by messing around with Hamlet’s internal feelings for his father,