Hamlet In the opening scene of Hamlet Shakespeare introduces us to vital background information that evokes the action of the main plot. The action begins when Marcellus asks the others "has this thing appear"d ... my opinion/ This bodes some strange eruption to our state. Then Marcellus asks why the state has been recently disrupted by warlike preparations of all kinds. Horatio then answers "Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,/ Thereto prick"d on by a most emulate pride,/ Did forfeit, with his life, all those lands/ Which he stood seized of, to the ... dead? "A mote it is to trouble...

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