Revenge In Hamlet

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He tells Hamlet and Hamlet asks if he can see him? Later, Hamlet sees the ghost and communicates with it for the first time. The ghost tells him “so art thou to revenge”(I.IV.ll.8) because he is in purgatory and suffering. He was asking Hamlet to murder his uncle. Hamlet cannot believe that he is seeing his father, and even more he is asking him to murder the king. Upon realizing that he is not seeing things, Hamlet kept in his mind till the end that he had to finish out the act of revenge. The ghost goes deeper in to the conversation and says that “sleeping by a brother’s hand of life, of crown, of queen, at one dispatched, cat off even in blossoms of my sin” (I.V.ll.74-76). He was saying that his uncle sleeping with his mother was incest, and that had to be stopped because it was a sin. Hamlet vowed “now to my world; it is adieu, adieu! Remember me, I have sworn’t” (I.V.ll.110-112), meaning that he has sworn to follow his father’s word of revenge and release him from ...

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