Hamlet Act 1 Scence 1

1)The guards create interest by their arguments of which they arent exactly sure of. A ghost also appears which normally helps to create interest.

2)We learn very little from the actual ghost appearance. However we learn from the guards that the ghost is the dead king and that he is dressed in full combat armor. His armor suggest that the state of denmark may be going into battle and fallling apart or decaying. We also learn that Fortinbras and King Hamlet were killed.

3) The Ghost comes back and they guards try to poke at it but it disappears. This is funny but they also say they will go find Hamlet and ask him about the ghost. Since the play is called Hamlet, people are eager to find out who he is...

4)The time of year and the actual events that are going on make the mood very dark and dooming as it plays into the fall of man kind. However the guards cheer it up a bit considering they are funny because their kind of stupid and don't know what to do with themselves.

5)The guards aren't the smartest people and they don't know what to do with the ghost that keeps coming and disappearing, so they decide to poke at it, even though it is there king. They are also scared because it is their dead king who is dressed in armor and they think that it might be a sign something bad is going to happen. The ghost is also not talking so it gives another reason that pumps of the creepy feeling causing the stupid guards to be frightened.

6) He thinks that the king has come back to tell them how to find treasure and become rich! He then gets realistic and realizes he is wearing armor and not a metal detector, and believes he has come back to warn them about young Fortinbras leading Norway to battle against them.

7) The characters that show up in the scene are Barnardo, Francisco, Marecellus, Horatio, the Ghost

8) Horatio says that the King Hamlet and Fortinbras were enemies and that King Hamlet slayed Fortinbras.

9) Young Fortinbras is King Fortinbras son who wants to get revenge against Norway.

10) Haratio said that all hell broke loose. Dead came out of their graves and began to speak gibberish while the stars feel from the heavens leaving trails of blood and the moon became eclipsed. This is his way of saying that Rome had a horrible curse on it after Julius died.

11) Haratio is the only guard who is educated out of the few. Normally guards are big brutes who dont think much or for themselves at all so they look to Haratio to give them an interpretation of the ghost. He is also the only one who really gives us any information about what is going on with the ghost, even though he changes his mind a lot. Sadly we learn in english that as long as you can back it up your right.

12)Without Haratio we would have a seen with a few stupid guards running around poking at a knight. Haratio sets up the entire story by giving us a background and telling us the possible reason the ghost is there.

13) We learn that Denmark and Norway have had a tension between them for a very long time. They also both have had kings who died and are carried on by their sons.