Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5
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- I will.
- Whither wilt thou lead me? Speak, I'll go no further
- Mark me.
- Alas, poor ghost.
- Speak, I am bound to hear.
- My hour is almost come when I to sulph'rous and tormenting flames must render up myself.
- Pit me not, but lend thy serious hearing to what I shall unfold.
- What?
- So art thou revenge when thou shalt hear.
- Hamlet and the Ghost enter. Hamlet is nervous about where he is being led to, so he questions the Ghost. The Ghost then insists that Hamlet listens to what he has to say.
- I am thy father's spirit, doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confin'd to fast in fires, till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purg'd away. but that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand an end like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list! If thou didst thy dear father love-
- The Ghost tells Hamlet he does not have much time to speak, so he must make it quick before he has to return.
- O God!
- Murder!
- Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.
- Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange and unnatural.
- Hamlet begins to listen and is told that he will be needed to seek revenge. This leaves Hamlet confused as he is not sure what for.
- Haste me to know't, that I with wings as swift as meditation or the thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge.
- O my prophetic soul. My uncle!
- The Ghost then continues to explain to Hamlet how he is actually the Ghost of his father, and that is there so much that Hamlet has not yet learned. Stuff so deep that it will leave chills through his body.
- Hamlet then learns how his father died, as the Ghost mentions that he must get revenge for his murder. This leaves Hamlet shocked and confused as he now has suspicions of who may have done this.
- Hamlet tells the Ghost to tell him what he knows. The Ghost then tells him, how the foul murder was committed by no other then his own uncle, his blood. Hamlet is now very mad and upset, but also glad as he now knows that it was his uncle and that his suspicions were indeed correct.
- I find thee apt. And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed that roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, wouldst thou not sir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear. 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, a serpent stung me-so the whole ear of Denmark is by a forged proccess of my death rankly abus'd- but know, thou noble youth, the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown.
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