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I, i – I, ii, 159

The watchmen of the Elsinore Castle believed that they saw the ghost of King Hamlet who had recently died. So the next night they asked Horatio, and intellectual and a friend of Prince Hamlet's to accompany them for his opinion on it. Horatio tried to speak to the ghost but it did not respond so he suggested to get Prince Hamlet to speak to the ghost. There is a party thrown by the new King (Hamlet's uncle), and this is where the reader learns how Hamlet feels about his mother marrying his uncle a month after his father's death.

4. Quote lines from the scene(s) that you enjoyed and comment on them.

Horatio: What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,
Together with that fair and warlike form
In which the majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!

I chose this quote because it the reader a sense a bit of aggravation that Horatio felt because the ghost of King Hamlet would not speak to him. This quote shows......

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