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Hamlet Mood Essay

Hamlet Mood Essay

Act 1 of Shakespeare's Hamlet is an important act of the play because it sets the reader up with the mood of the play through conversations and events that happen. These moods set up are mysterious, mournful, and revengeful. With these moods set in place they will most likely determine the actions of Hamlet and other events that unfold throughout this tragedy.
Right away in the first scene and a few others you can see that there is a going to be a mysterious mood with a few weird things happening in during the rest of the play. In the beginning of the first scene Marcellus says, "Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, / With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch"(1,1,76-77). Marcellus is telling Horatio about the ghost that he and Barnardo have seen on a two occasions. They don't think that anyone will believe them so they bring Horatio along because if he sees it people will believe him because he is a scholar and he is respected. All three......


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Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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