Hamlet: Act I Scene V

• Ghost Hamlet and Prince Hamlet meet in another part of the platform of the castle
• The ghost hints that it will later go to hell for the things he did in the previous life, kingly ways are wicked and subject to sins and such
• King Hamlet: " The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears the crown"
• Uncle seduced mother of Hamlet from King Hamlet, stand alone carry all those virtuous moments away from the prior relationship
• Lust has taken Queen Gertrude, her guilt will consume her, eventually leading up to her death
• She'll be sent to heaven, dealt with the main man upstairs, a judgement to determine everything
• Hamlet knew there was something already sketchy with how things happened to be
• Ghost was poisoned in the ear by quicksilver by the King Uncle
• Ghost gives advice to Hamlet that Royalty should be determined by reason not emotion (in connection to Laertes, Polonius, and Ophelia)
• That it should not be his downfall to have his feelings defeat him on his journey to the throne
• Hamlet is thinking about the stuff he can do all these things now and then
• It's easier said than done
• Marcellus and Horatio now have to swear that something is going down between Hamlet and the King Claudius
• Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
• Hamlet is going to act "nuts" so to say, knowing what's going on and has to keep a stable and diligent mindset; no lack of authority, mollify those in concern
• "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"