"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" -cliche phrase now seen always.
-ghost proclaims himself as hamlets father and says he is in purgatory
-ghost tells hamlet that Claudius killed him.
-Claudius seduced Gertrude, and she left him before Hamlet Sr. And Gertrude knows Claudius killed Hamlet Sr.
-Claudius poured poison in Hamlet Sr. Ear while Hamlet Sr. was sleeping in the orchard.
-Hamlet Sr. knows what he know because he is a ghost.
-Hamlet Sr. Tells Hamlet to leave his mother to get what she deserves in heaven.
-But Hamlet Sr literally says revenge against Claudius is free game.
"I have sworn't."
Hamlet is resolved.
The conflict inside Hamlet is now between going against his morals and fulfilling the heroism in his family or doing what he thinks is right. And he struggles between what actions really do distinguish a man from a boy.
Hamlet finds clarity in this scene.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
"The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"
Hamlets point of being is to avenge his fathers death.
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