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Post by franicaza95 on Feb 3, 2013 4:00:14 GMT -5
well everyone could hallucinate things after a tragedy like your fathers death occurs but i dont think he's imagining since he wasnt the only one who saw the ghost. Maybe the fact that he is seeing a ghost, may cause him to act crazy which could make him go into madness.
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Post by joannekim on Feb 3, 2013 6:11:37 GMT -5
I do not believe in ghosts, but I think the ghost actually exists in the play; we saw that the guards and Horatio see the ghost before Hamlet even noticed. I believe Shakespeare placed the ghost in the play to foreshadow tragic events in the future. A king's brother killed the king and married his wife. It is something that would make the dead king become a poor wandering ghost and want revenge. I believe Hamlet will eventually go mad from various problems, but I think Hamlet is not crazy yet in Act 1 and him seeing the ghost is not one of the proofs.
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Post by sarahlee2 on Feb 4, 2013 5:01:29 GMT -5
I think that Hamlet really sees the ghost. It's not like this play was based off a true story or whatever so I think that it is possible to see the ghost. And since the guards saw the ghost too, it can't be just Hamlet imagining the ghost.
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Post by jessicak016 on Feb 8, 2013 2:35:58 GMT -5
I don't think that Hamlet is actually crazy from the beginning of the play since his friend, Horatio, and the guards also saw the ghost and recognized the ghost even as the deceased king. However, I think that the appearance of the ghost is one of the causes that makes Hamlet descend into madness. In the Act I, after he saw the ghost, he said that he will act crazy in front of certain people. And him acting crazy also helped him to descend into madness.
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Post by sarahlee4 on Feb 11, 2013 7:25:49 GMT -5
I personally believe in ghosts so I think him seeing a ghost is something normal. Him going crazy on the other hand and basing his life on avenging his father is a different story. The things he would be willing to do and the things he thinks due to him putting his all in to avenge his father is what a crazy man would do.
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Post by delmanykkfs on Feb 11, 2013 10:00:57 GMT -5
Umm... The story says that he was planning acting like crazy so his plan would successful to revenge his father and the story also says that he was getting that "crazy" it sounds like he forgot that was crazy, I think he's was getting crazy.
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Post by stormy44 on Feb 12, 2013 8:08:26 GMT -5
If the ghost isn't real, then how did Barnardo and Horatio see him as well? But we don't know if the ghost really told Hamlet that his father was murdered. I feel like Hamlet was just looking for an excuse to kill his uncle, who he hated with passion.
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Post by minchoi0923 on Feb 12, 2013 14:15:14 GMT -5
I think it's kind of premature to think that Hamlet is imagining all those things. It is a FACT that there was a ghost that looked just like his father; not only Hamlet but also the guards saw the ghost too. But I guess it's hard to decide whether everything he is saying is true or not because he's the only person who actually claimed that he had a direct conversation with his dad. What I think is, when he first countered the ghost, the ghost didn't really say anything so Hamlet went insane and started coming up with his own reasons why the ghost came. Then he told the guards and when the situation got worse, he just killed Claudius. I dont know
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Post by hanbikang on Feb 22, 2013 8:53:00 GMT -5
I guess he is sort of "wanting" for someone to tell what has happened. He has lost his father and gave him a lot of stress. And he is finding a way to get rid of it. And maybe the ghost is his imagination but guardians have seen them too. So we can say that in his perspective ghost really exists and he is wanting to find the truth.
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Post by davidh on Feb 22, 2013 8:53:47 GMT -5
I think he is imagining all of this Because he is crazy. I think it's because he lost his father and that gave him at shock and made him crazy. It is normal for people to lose their family And especially for teenagers
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Post by kevin on Feb 28, 2013 20:43:31 GMT -5
no i don't think hamlets crazy. he is just pretending to be crazy and i don't get why people are uncertain about this. i bet shake intended to make the play like this but people are just overthinking about the theme of uncertainty bla blalah there is no need to go that deeep
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Post by kiranshoaib on Mar 2, 2013 8:15:48 GMT -5
I dont think Hamlet could have been imagining all that, as he was not the only one who saw the ghost of his father, there were two more witnesses for that.
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Post by sojounggg on Mar 17, 2013 10:52:20 GMT -5
i think he is crazy or different from us. being in a situations like that ofr course will make you crazy
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Post by rebeccahan0613 on Mar 17, 2013 12:12:51 GMT -5
I think Hamlet is delusional. I don't believe in ghosts, but that doesn't mean Hamlet didn't see it either. I mean, this is a fiction...so I don't know if my personal view on ghosts have anything to do with the story...but yea . I think the "ghost: that other people in the story saw was just like a curtain or something that may look like a ghost. I think the characters could have mistaken certain things as a ghost because they were so scared and stuff like that. I think this is really up to the readers to interpret. This ghost part goes both ways.
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Post by stormy44 on Mar 21, 2013 0:48:57 GMT -5
In the beginning, Hamlet was overwhelmed by grief and sorrow, but he didn't show signs of insanity. And other guards could see the ghost just like him, so that wouldn't be able to prove his madness as well. But when Hamlet later kills Polonius in Gertrude's chamber, he suddenly sees his dead father again. What is really weird is that Gertrude cannot see the ghost even though it's very clear in Hamlet's eyes. I think this is when Hamlet's acting led to his actual state of madness. By the end of the play, I was certain that Hamlet has gone completely insane.
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