1. Summary: The scene starts out with Bernardo taking over guard duty from Fransisco. Marcellus comes up with horatio to show him the ghost that he and Bernardo have seen. They see the ghost, who is the ghost of the late King Hamlet, and Horatio tries to speak to it but it will not speak to him. Horatio explains that the soldiers have to be on guard duty and Denmark is preparing for war because the son of the late king of Norway plans to attack Norway. The men plan to take Hamlet, King Hamlet's son, to see and talk to the ghost.
2. Questions: How did King Hamlet die? Why has King Hamlet become a ghost? Why will the ghost not speak to Horatio when he firsts tries to speak with it; is it because Horatio upset it trying to get it to talk to him? Horatio - why were you so rude when talking to the ghost?
3. Quotations:
Marcellus states that "It faded on the crowing of the cock," "it" being the ghost. This quotation is sort of cool because it makes a connection between the normal world and the supernatural wotrld because the rooster is normal and the ghost is supernatural and the rooster causes the ghost to go away. This quotation almost puts a supernatural quality on the rooster, even though it is a normal creature of the normal world, because it has power over the mysterious spirit.
Horatio, when talking to the ghost, says "Speak of it! Stay and speak!" to the ghost. This quotation shows Horatio's bravery. It would be expected that Horatio would be too nervous being around the ghost to speak confidently if at all, but he assertively commands it.
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