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  • Look how politely it's pointing you to a place that's farther away. But don't go!
  • It wants you tog o off with it, as if it wants to tell you something again
  • Why, what's the danger? I don't value my life one bit. And as for my soul, how can the ghost endanger that, since it's as immortal as the ghost is? Look, it's waving me over again. I'll follow it.
  • Where wilt thou lead me? Speak, I'll go no further!
  • The hour has come when I have to return to the horrible flames of purgatory.
  • I am thy father's spirit...Revenge his most foul and unnatural murder. Murder most foul, as in the best it is. But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
  • Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge.
  • Horatio and Marcellus told Hamlet that thye've seen a ghost similar to his dad. On the night watch, he comes with. They beg him not to follow it when it appears. Hamlet follows the ghost.
  • O, my prophetic soul! My uncle!
  • ’Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, A serpent stung me. So the whole ear of DenmarkIs by a forgèd process of my death Rankly abused. But know, thou noble youth, The serpent that did sting thy father’s life Now wears his crown.
  • Hamlet finds that he is speaking to the ghost of his dead father. He's unsure of why he wants to speak to Hamlet.
  • Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,So to seduce!—won to his shameful lustThe will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.Sleeping within my orchard,My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stoleWith juice of cursèd hebona in a vial And in the porches of my ears did pourThe leprous distilment, whose effect holds such an enmity with blood of manThat swift as quicksilver it courses through the natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigor it doth posset and curd, like eager droppings into milk.
  • The Ghost of King Hamlet says he was murdered in a foul way. Hamlet is going to seek revenge for the murder of his father.
  • Yes, by heaven! O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain! My tables—meet it is I set it down That one may smile and smile and be a villain.At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.
  • The Ghost of King Hamlet wasn't killed by a snake. The ghost breaks to Hamlet that he was murdered by his own brother! Hamlet's uncle.
  • King Hamlet was poisoned through the ear by Claudius. Claudius killed him in order to marry King Hamlet's wife.
  • Since Hamlet now knows what Claudius has done and how Gertrude didn't keep her vows, he's cursing his mother and tells the ghost he'll avenge his father's death.
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