This is because Ophelia is Hamlet’s girlfriend, and so she is close to him. Polonius thinks that the best person to find out what is causing Hamlet’s strange moods is Polonius’s own daughter Ophelia. Claudius soon notices that Hamlet is behaving strangely, so he asks Polonius, his adviser, to spy on him. He becomes depressed, and he thinks about killing himself: ‘To be or not to be – that is the question.’ Hamlet decides to pretend he is mad while he tries to find out if King Claudius really did kill his father. Hamlet can’t believe that his mother would marry the man who murdered her husband. The ghost tells Hamlet to take revenge on Claudius for murdering his father. As the king slept, Claudius put poison into his ear, causing the king a painful death. It tells him that Hamlet’s father did not die naturally, but was murdered by his brother Claudius. ‘I am your father’s spirit,’ the ghost tells Hamlet. When Hamlet sees the ghost, he is told that it is the ghost of his father. The ghost looks like Hamlet’s father, the dead king. Soon, a ghost is seen walking on the castle walls. Hamlet is shocked that his mother has married so soon after his father’s death, and angry that she has married Claudius. His mother has married his father’s brother, Claudius, who is now king of Denmark. Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, has come back from university to find that his father, the old king, is dead.
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