Horatio's Apparition Of The King Of Hamlet

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The soldiers ask Horatio to join them in order for him to believe their initial claims of the apparition of the ghost of the King of Hamlet. Horatio has decided to stay and see if what they say is true.
One knows that the ghost is not a hallucination because Horatio says that it looks exactly like the king including his armor and facial expressions. “HORATIO. Such was the very armour he had on
When he the ambitious Norway combated.
So frowned he once when, in an angry parle,
He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice” (I.i.64-67).
What Horatio says is valid because he may have known the king better than the rest of the men there as he is friends with his son, Hamlet. The same clothes and facial expressions that the ghost displays is …show more content…

For all, our thanks” (I.ii.8-16).
This is an important piece of exposition because now readers know of the affairs that have been done after the death of the King of Hamlet and how these will affect the characters and future events.
Evidence of wrongdoing in Claudius’ speech is that he seems to not care for his dead brother and only for himself as he wants to immediately put down his own rules and get on with business under his command. “KING. That we with wisest sorrow think on him/ Together with remembrance of ourselves” (I.ii.6-7). The new king is showing signs of greediness and selfishness which leads one to think that he may have had something to do with the death of his …show more content…

When it comes to speaking with Hamlet, he does not give him any respect or his father and Claudius thinks that Hamlet should learn to grow up and become manly.
“KING.
What is't, Laertes?
You cannot speak of reason to the Dane
And lose your voice. What wouldst thou beg, Laertes,
That shall not be my offer, not thy asking” (I.ii.43-46)
“KING. But to persever/ In obstinate condolement is a course/ Of impious stubbornness./ ‘Tis unmanly grief” (I.ii.92-94).
This shows that Claudius is corrupt as he prefers certain people over others as they are close friends to him and they have served him well while he does not seem to like anything or anyone who had some relation with the previous King of Denmark.
Hamlet did not become King after the death of his father because his mother married the King’s brother, Claudius, who then became the new King. “HAMLET. Within a month,
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes,
She married”

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