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In horror, Hamlet listened with Horatio as the dead king described how his brother Claudius
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Dayzi Buchan Hamlet Prince Hamlet bitterly opposed the marriage of his mother, Gertrude, to Claudius, her own brother-in-law, so soon after her husband's death. Hamlet had a strange suspicion that the new king - his stepfather and former uncle - had somehow plotted his father's mysterious demise, and he refused to stop mourning his natural father, now two months dead. Hamlet was approached by his close friend Horatio, who revealed that for three nights now castle guards had seen the former king as a ghost. He persuaded the prince that his father must have some message of importance and so Hamlet should wait with him that night for the ghost to appear again. The ghost was the Hamlet's father. In horror, Hamlet listened with Horatio as the dead king described how his brother Claudius had seduced Gertrude, and how the two of them had arranged for his murder, while claiming that a...
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