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Post by lukejoo on Jan 25, 2015 14:47:50 GMT
I think that there really was a ghost since the other men all saw it, but that it is Hamlet's father is simply their imagination. Once you start thinking about something, it's hard to let go of it. So probably once they started to think that it is the king, they were probably carried away with that thought. What the ghost told Hamlet too would simply have been his imagination as well for that would have been his deepest desire. It would've simply been his subconscious projecting his secret desire.
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Post by irin on Jan 25, 2015 15:00:00 GMT
I think it can be both way ghost can be supernatural figure may be ghost can be father also I don't is ghost supernatural because it appeared to others.
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Post by sergeyfen on Jan 25, 2015 15:10:46 GMT
I personally think there is no ghost at all, maybe Hamlet was blinded with his father's death because those 2 were really close and obviously it affected Hamlet a lot. I am not saying Hamlet was going nuts but anything can happen even hallucinating ghosts are possible when you lose someone close to you. I really believe that there were no ghosts just a son who was mourning his father's unexplainable death.
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Post by irin on Jan 25, 2015 15:17:28 GMT
The ghost are not supernatural beThis whole thing could have been all an illusion for Hamlet like it can be imagination.
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Post by jooyoungparkyesbaby on Jan 25, 2015 15:50:45 GMT
I think that the ghost is most likely something super natural, and not Hamlet's own imagination. However I think that the conversation that he got out from it is totally imagined. The ghost tells hims to not touch his mother, when both the mother and the father killed his dad. This could be from Hamlet's excessive love for his mother and therefore is imagining that his mother should not be punished.
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Post by saimoon1 on Jan 25, 2015 17:45:46 GMT
I think it is Hamlet's father, he was definitely not happy with his death. I mean he was probably surprised to find himself dead so he stuck around to make his son take vengence on his behalf, and he also tells his son to leave his mother alone which shows that he cares about her even though she moved on. IF it was the devil it might have told him to kill his mother as well.
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Post by hansoo on Jan 25, 2015 19:01:32 GMT
I think the ghost is the spirit of hamlet's father, who is eager to revenge Claudia. Hamlet's father did not die with honor, and there needs to be revenge in order to lament this death. The ghost is telling Hamlet to help him die with honor.
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Post by ameliachen80385 on Jan 27, 2015 11:42:19 GMT
I think the ghost is Hamlet's father because he was killed by his brother and this is really not fair so he wants to take a revenge but he could not since he is a ghost.That's why he told Hamlet to take a revenge on Claudius.
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Post by stephen on Jan 27, 2015 12:44:45 GMT
I blieve the ghost is Hamelt's father himself. However, I believe he came from hell not the notice who has killed him, but to bring great tragedy and blood upon the country of England.
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Post by dhiya on Jan 28, 2015 12:11:20 GMT
I really think it was Hamlet's father bcs he wanted Hamlet to avenge him. King Hamlet also isnt the wisest, kindest king you'd imagine, thats why he went to purgatory.
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Post by lins on Jan 31, 2015 8:21:31 GMT
I personally believe in ghost but I don't want ghost exist, you know what I mean? But anyways ghost cannot be Hamlet's hallucination or apparition that he psychologically made up in that other people including the guards and Horatio saw the same figure. They also had consensus that the ghost resembled Hamlet's father. Through this givens, we can infer that Hamlet didn't see the hallucination, but everyone witnessed this supernatural phenomenon.
However, could ghost really talk? Ghost didn't talk to anyone else but Hamlet. Since Hamlet was obsessed with his father's death, mother and current state of Denmark, he could have made up what ghost said consciously and unconsciously. In this way, he got some sort of justification to kill Claudius, whom Hamlet assumed as a murderer of his father's death. In this manner, we can infer that Hamlet could have heard what he wanted to hear from the ghost. Another reasoning can be that the ghost was a devil, as Danielle said. Devil could have wanted everyone in Hamlet to just die early and go to purgatory like Hamlet's father or go to hell with him, which is his purpose of alluring Hamlet out to murder his uncle.
I think that the latter reasoning is more likely in that Hamlet's father who is in purgatory to purge his sins shouldn't allure his son to commit crime and become like himself or go to hell. He should be repenting his sins not seduce others to commit crime like the devil.
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Post by hansoo on Feb 1, 2015 8:15:44 GMT
I thought it was the real ghost of King Hamlet telling his son to revenge for dishonorable death. But when I heard Ms. Boyd's question or suggestion of the ghost being devil's voice, I was shocked. I honestly have no idea right now. Will the truth regarding this question be answered later in the story?
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Post by leeeeena on Feb 1, 2015 9:29:14 GMT
I think that the ghost is Hamlet's father because people at that time believed that people become ghost when they have rancor after they died.
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Post by agneslianaputri on Feb 1, 2015 12:49:06 GMT
I don't see how we could really argue that the ghost was not there. After all, it is not only Hamlet who can see the ghost. In fact, he is not even the first one to see it. So it can't be just part of Hamlet's imagination...right(?) Without the ghost, it is hard to know how Hamlet would find out about what Claudius had done.
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Post by jmoon234 on Feb 1, 2015 15:09:29 GMT
You might say that he is Hamlet's father because it wan't just Hamlet that saw the ghost but many other people. This might prove that the spirit is a revengeful spirit wishing for someone to take his revenge so that he can rest in peace.
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