A Demon in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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School essay

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2 pages

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09/05/2007

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Table of Contents A Demon in Shakespeare’s Hamlet Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Hamlet's first encounters with the Ghost
  3. Hamlet's friend and fellow scholar Horatio
  4. Hamlet's corruption by the Ghost
  5. Examining Act 1 Scene 4
  6. Conclusion
  7. Work cited

Abstract

As David Bevington states in his introduction to hamlet, "A recurring motif in hamlet is of a seemingly healthy exterior concealing an interior sickness. Mere pretense of virtue . . . 'will but skin and film the ulcerous place, / Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, / Infects unseen' (3.4.154-156)" (527). Explicitly, hamlet's statement pertains to his uncle Cladius and mother Gertrude. However, shakespeare implies that these same attributes apply to the Ghost character, and ironically, hamlet as well. Ultimately the Ghost, as hamlet himself comes to suspect, proves to be a corrupt and corrupting demon figure (much like the King), and not a holy, redeeming apparition.

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