Hamlet Act I Scenes i and ii

In Act 1 Scene I of Hamlet, Bernardo, Marcellus, and Horatio watch the royal castle of Elsinore in Denmark. They seem to think there is a ghost of old Hamlet who is the former King of Denmark. They are visited by the ghost, but no words spoken. All of them go and tell the son hamlet that they saw the ghost of his father. Shakespeare seems to call into question the limits of our own beliefs and what can be seen and said and what we think is normal for others to see. I think that he does this to make us think more about what if this really did happen and how those of us would react and the true feelings and beliefs behind it. I think this is also hard for the prince because they are saying they have seen the ghost of his father and he is now in between all of the confusion. In moving on in scene II Claudius the king, the morning after Horatio sees the ghost, thanks his subjects for their assistance in the ceremonies at his brother’s funeral and his own marriage to his brother’s widow and the mother of prince Hamlet, Gertrude. He sends agents to the King of Norway to urge him to control his nephew Fortinbras. It is said that he will be invading Denmark. The big part of this scene is when Hamlet reveals his anger that his uncle and mother have recently married and he is very angry and upset about it. He can’t believe what is going on. In my opinion I think he has the right to be mad and confused and show his feelings. In this part of the book I think Shakespeare is trying to catch the readers attention by putting a twist to the story and making it less able to be concluded then the reader thinks. These are my thoughts and opinions on the first two scenes in Act 1 of The Tragedy of Hamlet.