He tells Hamlet that he was murdered by his uncle. Before it was thought his death was an accident.
His father's ghost telling him to avenge his death.
We are informed of elder Hamlet's death by seeing his ghost appear.
Horatio is Hamlet's friend from university. He tells Hamlet that his father's ghost has been seen wandering the castle walls.
Hamlet's plan is to kill his uncle whose name is Claudius. He wants to kill him because he saw his fathers ghost who told him that his brother poisoned him therefore Hamlet's father wants Hamlet to avenge him by killing his brother Claudius.
He tells Hamlet that he was murdered by his uncle. Before it was thought his death was an accident.
His father's ghost telling him to avenge his death.
We are informed of elder Hamlet's death by seeing his ghost appear.
Horatio is Hamlet's friend from university. He tells Hamlet that his father's ghost has been seen wandering the castle walls.
Hamlet's plan is to kill his uncle whose name is Claudius. He wants to kill him because he saw his fathers ghost who told him that his brother poisoned him therefore Hamlet's father wants Hamlet to avenge him by killing his brother Claudius.
He reveals that Claudius murdered him. He doesn't tell Hamlet anything about Gertrude he didn't already know.
In the Introduction, Mary Shelley refers to the ghost of Hamlet": the ghost of Hamlet's father who lets Hamlet know that his death was part of a conspiracy.
What will Hamlet do with the information he received from his father's ghost regarding his murder? Will Hamlet avenge his father's death?
No, the ghost says that he is forbidden to describe purgatory. The ghost's purpose is not to make Hamlet more devout but to make him more vengeful.
horatio does not want hamlet to follow the ghost because horatio thinks its something evil like the devil in the form of his dead father trying to presuade him
His friends try to physically prevent Hamlet from following the ghost, while Horatio tries to remonstrate with him, pointing out that the ghost may be leading him to his death. Eventually Hamlet has to threaten them: "I'll make a ghost of him that lets me." (To let here means to hinder or prevent.)
The ghost tells Hamlet the secret of his father's death. Hamlet's father was not killed by a serpent, but was murdered with poison. He also told hamlet that it was his uncle who murdered his father, and that he also seduced Gertrude, his mother. The ghost then tells Hamlet to avenge his father's death but to leave his mother alone.