ultimately getting much of the story from primary or even other secondary sources. Thus‚ even where the story is told with confidence‚ the narrator has given us reasons to doubt evrything. We become critical readers‚ unlike Crane‚ who believes the ghost stories he reads. The narrator also admits to complete ignorance of one of the defining moments of the story—Katrina’s imagined rejection of Ichabod—as well as to its ending. He does‚ however‚ relay a scene which he can only have knowledge of if Crane
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flawed. However‚ this feature is Hamlet’s main personality flaw and because of it‚ the play is dragged on. From the moment of encountering the ghost‚ Hamlet is determined to enact revenge upon Claudius. Soon after his encounter with the ghost‚ Hamlet begins to doubt the ghost’s existence‚ motives‚ and identity. Hamlet fails to act against Claudius because he fears that Claudius is innocent and that it will be unjust to murder him if “the spirit that I have seen/May be the devil‚ and the devil hath power/To
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consciousness and control over his emotions‚ it becomes abundantly clear that Hamlet is indeed sane. During the opening of this play‚ Hamlet is asked by the ghost of King Hamlet‚ his deceased father‚ to avenge his death. He has recently lost his father‚ and has seen his mother marrying his uncle‚ who is the murderer of his father according to the ghost. These facts are enough to cause chaos and emotional turmoil to any person’s mind. Hamlets states‚ "And so I am revenged. That would be scanned: A villain
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Hamlet says‚ “Haste me to know’t‚ that I‚ with wings as swift / As meditation or the thoughts of love / May sweep to my revenge” (1.5.35-37). During these lines in the play‚ and directly after receiving the startling information from the ghost‚ Hamlet reveals that he will indeed kill Claudius. Hamlet swears to himself that he will get revenge‚ and in his mind he has reached the point where there is no turning back. Hamlet’s use of language‚ particularly from lines 99-119 of Act One scene
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Unfortunately‚ Hamlet and Laertes’ both lose their father’s unexpectedly throughout the play. However‚ both men have opposite responses to the situations. Hamlet learns from the appearing ghost about his father’s murder. He shuts himself down for months and goes into a long period of mourning and weeping. Claudius even tells Hamlet that he’s been mourning this death for so long he’s beginning to question the prince’s masculinity. It was clear Hamlet was suicidal after his father’s death; his inner
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with the players about preforming a play for King Claudius and Hamlet’s mother‚ Queen Gertrude. After observing one of the actors become very emotional while playing a character‚ Hamlet goes into a rant about how disappointed his is with himself. The ghost of Hamlet’s father came to him and told him to avenge his death by killing King Claudius. After seeing the actor’s performance Hamlet is almost disgusted with himself and his lack of actions towards his father’s revenge. He says in lines 525-530‚ “Yet
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guilty. To begin‚ the state has improperly failed to disclose that the ghost Hamlet has been seeing is the reason Hamlet is accusing me of such horrors. This apparition is truly a bad omen. It’s wicked requests it asks Hamlet to fulfill are similar to the desires of Satan. Not only this‚ but Hamlet has used his conversations with the apparition as a way to cope with the death of his own father. Therefore‚ it is clear that the ghost is Hamlet’s pitiful attempt to grasp onto anything that will allow him
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VOSKANYAN Tigran TES1 Hamlet’s second soliloquy : oral presentation In the last scene of act I Hamlet is told by the ghost that his father has been murdered by Uncle Claudius‚ the brother of the deceased king. Hamlet once mournful and grim turns revengeful‚ he promises the ghost to “sweep” to revenge. But he is tormented with doubts. The ghost has taken its toll on Hamlet but has not been convincing enough‚ he cannot fully trust it given that it might also be an evil spirit willing to make him
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to the death of the entire royal family. Major Dramatic Question: I believe the major dramatic question of this play is: Should Hamlet avenge his father’s death? The possible answers to this question would alter the entirety of the play. When the ghost first told Hamlet this in Act I Scene V‚ Hamlet proclaimed‚ “Murder!...Haste me to know’t‚ that I‚ with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love‚ May sweep to my revenge.” Once Hamlet’s play revealed that Claudius really did murder his
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What is the function of the ghost in the play ? Is it real? The Ghost in the Hamlet story was most definitely real though out the story. The reason why I say Hamlets ghost is real is because he is speaking to Hamlet about his death‚ and what he thinks hamlet should do about it. Some people might say ghost aren’t real but I think ghost are real only if they have a presence on you. In Act 1 Scene 5 the ghost and Hamlet have a conversation about his death and what Hamlet
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