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    Claudius. From there‚ the mystery of what happed to his father began to unfold. Shortly after his return to Denmark‚ the ghost of his father visited Hamlet. During this scene‚ the ghost reveals to Hamlet the mystery behind his father’s dead. However‚ as the audience of the play‚ we are unsure of the reality of this statement until Hamlet showcased a play within the play of what the ghost had told him. King Claudius was outraged and could not handle the guilt

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    Hamlet In Act 1:1 of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ the audience is shown the ghost of the dead King Hamlet and the genre of a revenge tragedy is introduced. The scene is set in the night which immediately creates a sense of mystery‚ intrigue and apprehension‚ linking to the feelings created by the idea of ghosts and the supernatural which were typical of Elizabethan revenge tragedy playwrights. Shakespeare also uses various language techniques to create this mood in this scene. The scene begins with the

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    supernatural beings. I give them the bonus because in this first book there was no mention of vampires as a main supernatural! This story focused around a fifteen year old girl name Chloe Saunders has the ability to see ghosts. On the first day of school‚ Chloe saw a ghost which haunts her school. She had a mental breakdown during school and other people believed that she was crazy. She was sent to a group home for the disturbed kids called Lyle House. At the Lyle House‚ she met many other teens

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    Instead‚ their eyes glanced at the darkened woods‚ wondering if there was something following them like in one of Chief Black’s stories. While he knew the ghost tales weren’t true‚ Collin’s sensitive hearing did pick up the fact that there was indeed something out there‚ but he wasn’t alarmed at all as his nose told him exactly who it was. Finally‚ Collin found his voice. “You said that you are new here. Where’d

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    encounters the ghost of his recently murdered father‚ King Hamlet. Hamlet learns that the new King Claudius‚ who is the deceased King’s brother‚ is the one who murdered King Hamlet. Claudius also married his deceased brother’s wife‚ who is also Hamlet’s mother‚ Gertrude. The mere plot of the story is an obvious reason to why Hamlet behaved the irrational way that he did. However‚ while some may say that the concrete events that went on in the play such as talking to his dead father’s ghost and his mother

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    opportunity to prevent the prophecy‚ this lead to him being characterized by self-importance that made him trust he could keep fate from following through to its logical end. Hamlet’s fate was determined by a supernatural being‚ the ghost of his father. The ghost elaborated on the death and how he was poisoned by his uncle and he asks Hamlet to seek vengeance. Unlike what his father would have done‚ Hamlet hesitates and begins to questions his choices this leads to his fate being

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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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    plans differently. In the end each man is able to obtain the vengeance they seek‚ just not in the way that they anticipate. When Hamlet returns back to Elsinore from Wittenberg to honor the death of his father‚ he encounters the ghost of his dead father‚ king Hamlet. The ghost declares to Hamlet that he has been murdered by his brother Claudius and that he needs to be avenged by the death of

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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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    heir to the throne after his father’s death. In an unfortunate turn of events his uncle Claudius and the murderer of his father‚ the late King Hamlet‚ becomes the new king and marries his mother. Just when Hamlet is about to give up he meets the ghost of his father who tells Hamlet to revenge his death and kill Claudius‚ in an skillful effort the prince creates a plan to hire actors and reply his father’s death in front of the new king in order to make him give in and admit to his wicked murder

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