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Analyse the significance of the opening scene in relation to the rest of the play. Hamlet

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Have a little read: ... Analyse the significance of the opening scene in relation to the rest of the play. The first scene sets the play in motion, fills the audience in with background information, gives an exciting and chilling beginning and starts the plot. The first scene is one of the most interesting and a significant scene in the play, as it has a spooky entrance and a chilling dialogue. It starts the plot to kill the king in motion, which the play is all about. When Barnardo enters the castle Elsinore at the beginning of the play, he cannot find his fellow custodian, showing the audience it is dark. The bell that tolls earlier plays a significant part later on in the scene, but it also tells the audience that it is midnight, which again shows it is dark. When Barnardo enters he says, "Who's there?" Shakespeare is attempting to give the audience an element of fear

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