My Character is the Ghost. The Ghost is Hamlet’s dead father Hamlet Sr. I believe the ghost is truly the spirit of Hamlet’s dead father because the Ghost tells Hamlet “I am thy father’s spirit”(I.v.14), he is also seen by several people in the play, and knows exactly what happened to him. The Ghost tells Hamlet that while he was asleep in the orchard Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle, and the Ghost’s brother) snuck up on him and poured a vial of poison in his ear. This poison entered his bloodstream and attacked the blood cells, making them clot. Then he broke out in a rash and wounds began to form on his skin and crust up. He then died. He concluded that this is how Claudius robbed him of his life, his wife, and his crown, because, before he died Hamlet …show more content…
Winter is a time when things die, such as trees and leaves. I believe this is significant because when a tree dies it loses it’s outer core and is stripped down to its branches, much like a body is stripped down to a skeleton when a person dies. This is why I drew a dead tree branch with a raven on it. One of the reasons I drew a raven is because they are symbolic of death in many cultures. (I’ll get to the other reason later). And one of the main themes throughout the play is death. Hamlet is undoubtedly infatuated with the idea of death. This obsession is seen throughout the play as Hamlet attempts to piece together the meaning of …show more content…
This is showed when Horatio said the ghost was “as I have seen it in his life”(I.ii. 260). This is also prevalent when Horatio states that the Ghost was “armed at the point”(I.ii. 210), that “he wore his beaver up”(I.ii. 245), was “very pale”(I.ii.249) and that he had a “silvered”(I.ii. 261) beard. (point to the drawing and explain that this is why I drew the ghost the way I did). Hamlet, and all those who saw the ghost had memories of what he looked like when he was alive. The ghost was portrayed like how they remembered
Hamlet grants himself the opportunity to momentarily direct himself, yet it remains unknown as to whether he directs a representation of truth or a falsity. He exemplifies madness so well, as the sight of "a damned ghost" (77) insanely induces his imagination and comfortably transforms his identity to one of lunacy. This role he acquires is one he portrays so explicitly well as an actor that he easily utilizes it as the foundation for his players. He instructs the players:
It is obvious that Hamlet’s behaviour has varied immediately after his encounter with the Ghost when Hamlet decides that is it better if they part their separate ways and Horatio comments that Hamlets words are “wild and whirling.” (1.5.133) Perhaps Horatio was right to be wary of the Ghost. He warned Hamlet that it could be an evil spirit here to lure Hamlet into ma...
Virtually every scene or element in the play relates to these themes. In other words, the purpose of Hamlet is simply to delineate and comment upon an individual’s psychological response to feeling the rare type of obsession that Hamlet feels in the play.. The above themes are phenomena associated with that response, or with Shakespeare’s model of that response.
He realizes while looking at the skull that all the experiences and memories they had together have all disappeared because of death. Hamlet sees that everyone must die and that they are gone and forgotten so quickly. Shakespeare surely confirms that death is a major theme throughout the play.
These continuous images create a reoccurring theme of death and decay in Hamlet. While there are many other ways Shakespeare insinuates the theme, the metaphors between the dying garden and the state of Denmark are of the finest.
Death pervades Hamlet from the introductory part of the play. The ghost of hamlet the king announces the notion of death and it costs. Hamlet has a young attraction with death; he was advised by his friends that looking for the ghost is a wrong thing because the ghost is an ominous omen for Denmark and the greater subject of the fitness of the entire state. It is a noticeable indication of the rottenness of the state produced by Claudius killing to his brother. However, Hamlet’s fascination with death was excessive, which means that he was ready to lose everything to follow the ghost. Hamlet’s grief was greater than Claudius and his mother and that made him more obsessed about death.
I personally disagree with the author W.W. Greg’s interpretation of Hamlet’s ghost, and believe that his assumption that Hamlet is simply hallucinating his father’s ghost is without merit. Many of W.W. Greg’s claims relate Hamlet to other plays that were written by Shakespeare, claiming that due to how Shakespeare portrayed ghosts in his previous works, it would follow that Hamlet also fits into the same mold as these past writings. W.W. Greg even states, “I should like to be told what Shakespeare's views were of ghosts in general ... I am forced to turn to Shakespeare's other plays for suggestions as to how he represented these phenomena” (Greg 395). W.W. Greg is simply claiming that trends in Shakespeare’s writings in the past logically must take the same form in the character of Hamlet’s ghost. This method of thinking simply does not hold up when examined critically, mainly due to the fact that there were multiple witnesses to the ghost, a...
Hamlet’s death is assured from his own obsession with death in the early part of the play. It seems as though Hamlet has gone mad and no longer values life, not even his own. His madness stems from Old Hamlet’s ghost exacting revenge; finding out his uncle murdered his father, and his mother’s cluelessness. All of these things combine to turn Hamlet into a heartless killer. One of h...
All throughout the play Hamlet mourns the loss of his father, especially since his father is appearing to him as a ghostly figure telling him to avenge his death, and throughout the play it sets the stage and shows us how he is plotting to get back at the assassinator. Such an instance where the ghost appears to Hamlet is when Hamlet and his mother are in her bedchamber where the ghost will make his last appearance. Hamlet tells his mother to look where the ghost appears but she cannot see it because he is the only one who that has the ability to see him.
In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the ghost of King Hamlet is a subtle character who has a major effect on Hamlet during the play. Although he appears very little, the ghost causes Hamlet to think incorrectly and not act his normal self. Hamlet is accused madness and hallucination in one scene, and it can be traced back to the ghost causing it. The ghost’s presence is not always clear and only speaks to Hamlet, so it makes other characters think Hamlet is going crazy. The ghost only appears twice to speak to Hamlet, but each visit significantly affects Hamlet.
When the encounter with the ghost occurs at the beginning of the play, Horatio’s original skepticism introduces doubt. When Horatio agrees that the spirit exists, the readers are allowed to believe that the ghost was not a figment of Hamlet’s imagination. At the first sighting of the ghost, Horatio, urging Hamlet to stay away from the ghost, says, “What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord.../And there assume some other horrible form/Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason/ And draw you into madness? Think of it./The very place puts toys of desperation/Without more motive, into every brain” (III.ii.75). Horatio is foreshadowing Hamlet’s descent into madness. Here, Horatio is...
Ghosts are Real Ghosts, as with any other misunderstood group or people, have been preyed upon by others without understanding. The lack of knowledge about ghosts and haunting activity has led people astray as to what they really are. What Hollywood and television portrays is very inaccurate and cannot be relied upon as truthful. They show these spirits of the dead as being evil in nature, filled with malice and harmful intent. But this is not the case.
Death is approached through many facets in the play Hamlet. Shakespeare has used a great deal of imagery and symbols in order to portray death as a major theme in this play. The play is seeped with literal death as well as figurative death. By Hamlet approaching death in physical, spiritual, and emotional terms forces death to become a major theme in the play.
Tragic death plays a really big role in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Hamlet often considers death in many different perspectives, and definitely obsesses with the idea more so after his fathers’ death. Hamlet’s soliloquy is one of the most famous in literature, “To be or not to be, that is the question…” Hamlet’s dilemma is the pain of life that he must endure or the uncertainty of death. From the beginning of the play to the very last scene, the fascination between life and death plays a role throughout. Hamlet is troubled through the play after realizing that his uncle was the one who murdered his father and is now married to his mother. He wants to avenge Hamlet Sr. death and kill Claudius but feels that killing himself would be an easier resolution. After the death of his murdered father and appearance at his funeral, Hamlet will not leave anywhere without making the statement of his all black attire on the inside and out. The turn of events throughout the play only help the reader understand the debt of each character and their specific role to Hamlet and to the story in regards to life and death.
Born in 1931 to a fox farmer and a school teacher, Alice Munro lived “just beyond the most disreputable part of town” and wrote short stories in her spare time. She grew up to attend the University of Western Ontario to study English and Journalism but dropped out to move to Vancouver with her husband. She published her first short story collection in 1968 titled Dance of the Happy Shades. Afterwards she gained recognition for her short story collections, including three awards from the Governor’s General Literary Awards (Britannica, 2018). “[Short stories are] often sort of brushed off in general, you know, as something people do before they write their first novel.