Hamlet+1.5

7. It would creep me out just a little bit if I saw my father's (or anyone's for that matter) ghost appear before me. Hamlet does not question the potential illusion but completely obeys his father at once and believes in everything he is seeing (I'm not saying he's not actually seeing it, but I would question my own sanity, if I were Hamlet). The only person that Hamlet trusts is his father - and he has a right to not trust anyone else because it seems as though everyone in Hamlet is false! This is a lot for Hamlet to take at once (especially hearing the news from his murdered father! Rough life.), so I definitely sympathize for him.

5 / 8. I find it interesting (although it does make sense) that the Ghost only speaks to Hamlet - or is it that Hamlet is the only one that can hear the ghost..This is something that I think is a little ambiguous. Is this what the ghost is actually saying? Since it is just Hamlet and the Ghost alone, we do not really know. Hamlet already believed, as we found out earlier in the play, that his Uncle Claudius killed his father, so maybe this is happening in his imagination so he can confirm his own beliefs through the pigment of his father. Or maybe this is all reality and the ghost is encouraging him to take revenge. I think this idea is left quite ambiguous.

6. The ghost of King Hamlet says, "Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive/ Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven/ And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge/ To prick and sting her" (1.5.92-5). This is a lot to say about one's once wife. I can understand his bitterness because of the entire situation (well clearly, it pretty much stinks for him..), but if King Hamlet's relationship was really that strong with Queen Gertrude, I think he would not have used such vicious language such as "prick" and "sting." As this language towards Gertrude contrasts the Ghost's kinder nature towards Hamlet, it suggests that Hamlet and his father were closer than his parents may have been.