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What is the significance and development of the ghost in Hamlet? - Coggle…
What is the significance and development of the ghost in Hamlet?
P2: The ghosts haunting of the narrative (personality)
Horatio, Act 1 Scene i.
"As thou art to thyself.Such was the very armor 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. 'Tis strange. "
Metaphorical and Literal haunting
The charachters abscence heavily impacts the story and the charachters.
Hamlet goes mad in his grief
Gertrude marries her brother in law
Claudius becomes King
Fortinbras is seeking vengance
State of Denmark is endangered/rotten
"Something rotten in the state of Denmark"
P3: Shakespeare’s purposeful lack of development for the ghost.
Why?
Well, the ghost is meant to be consistent, as his message remains the same. Showing that as the plot develops the ghost still only has one goal.
Attitude towards Gertrude.
Act 1 vs Act 3
"Taint not thy mind nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven"
"Virtous queen"
"But look, amazement on thy mother sits;
Oh, step between her and her fighting soul! Speak to her Hamlet"
Act 3, Scene iv
"Do not forget! This visitation
Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose."
P1: The significance of the ghost as a symbol for moral conflict
Act 1, Scene 1
. Fortinbras forces
"Is the main motive of our preparations,
The source of this our watch, and the chief head"
"And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands"
"Has in the skirts of Norway, here and there,
Sharked up a list of landless resolutes,"
King Claudius ascension of the throne.
By English law, Hamlet would be next in line to the throne of Denmark upon his fathers death, yet it is Claudius who becomes king.
"Usupration of Hamlet"
"My crown, mine own ambition and my Queen.
May one be pardoned and retain th’offence?"
Act 1. Scene v. The ghosts message to Hamlet.
"Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder."
"But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father's life, Now wears his crown. "
"Ay, that incestuous, that adulterous beast, With witchcraft of his wits, with traitorous gifts — Oh, wicked wit and gifts that have the power. So to seduce — won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming virtuous queen."
"Taint not thy mind nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven"