The scene starts with Hamlet and the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, Hamlet says tp the ghost that he doesn’t want to go any further and he wants to know what he was going to tell him. The ghost tells him that he is actually his father with the line “I am thy father’s spirit” and also that hamlet should be ready to take some revenge. The ghost also reveals that he was murdered by his own brother, who married his wife and has taken over as king “‘Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of Denmark Is by a forged process of my death Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
Now wears his crown” Hamlet replies by telling him that he knew it deep down all along, The ghost tells us that his brother poured poison into his ear and leaving him for dead. all this is represented in the lines “My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment, whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body
And with a sudden vigor doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk,The thin and wholesome blood. So did it mine”
The ghost reminds him to take revenge by killing his uncle to put things right in the throne and the ghost exits. Marcellus and Horatio enters, Horatio asks if he is alright and hamlet say yes. Horatio and Marcellus asks what has happened and hamlet refuses to say as he might go around telling other people, Horatio and Marcellus reassure Hamlet by telling him they wont tell and he says he will tell the secret. Hamlet says “Any villain in Denmark is going to be, well, a villain” he then ask for them to promise that they wont tell anyone what happened tonight and they agree. The ghost also tell them to swear from under the stage several times and they agree and the scene ends.
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