Do you believe in ghosts?

Many people believe in ghosts, some of them confirmed that belief after experiencing an extraordinary, creepy or unbelievable situation. Well, there are plenty stories waiting to be heard, but unfortunately there is no evidence to prove them real.

Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” bases its plot in this phenomenon, Hamlet’s dead father returns to claim for revenge!! Could it sound normal in this type of tragedy, but some clues may make us believe that probably the only world in which that ghost appeared was in Hamlet’s mind.

In popular stories we usually hear that relatives, who passed away, sometimes return to make us a favor or to take care of us, but why Hamlet’s father would ask him to commit a crime?

First of all, Hamlet as a Christian should not believe in ghosts, people who died never come back again to the real world. One alternative is a demon coming from hell using Hamlet’s father figure, but it’s hard to categorize the nature of this character. On the other hand, the Catholic belief may refer to a soul from the purgatory, but as they need good actions to have access to heaven the ghost wouldn’t ask for a crime.

We cannot state the reality of the ghost as more than one character actually saw the ghost, but we can assure that his role is important as a guiding force throughout the play.

The importance of the lost paternal figure and the spontaneous marriage between Claudius and Gertrude probably affected Hamlet’s mind, he showed this antic-disposition, he acted like a mad person but probably, up to an extent, he was really crazy because something was not running normally. So then this justifies the act of Hamlet to returning all to normality and cutting out all that was “rotten” in Denmark. So then the king would’ve been avenged.

HORATIO	Have after. To what issue will this come?
MARCELLUS	Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (I. iv)