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English Coursework - Hamlet "Lord, we know what we are, we know not what we may be."~ Ophelia Act 4 Scene 5 "We think we know ourselves, but really we don't"~ Translate The Audience are never fully aware of who to trust or what is true or not throughout the whole play. The only person you can really rely on is Horatio, the most honest character in the play who is Hamlet's friend. The audience don't find out until later on in the play if the Ghost, old Hamlet, really is the dead king. In Elizabethan-Jacobean times, ghosts were people stuck in purgatory wandering the earth like a lost soul. A ghost could also have been the devil trying to trick someone into causing chaos. Another belief of the time was "The Divine Right of the King". This meant that the king or leader of a country was the closest possible connection to...

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