... Denmark is going to be attacked by Norway. After seeing the ghost, Horatio makes an allusion to Rome before the fall of Julius Caesar; A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets: As stars with trains of ... and greed shows the corruptness and weakness of King Claudius, and a ruler with these characteristics will inevitably lead the country to instability and unrest. Scene iv continues to show that Claudius is destructive to the nation. The king has a party, as is customary in Denmark at the time. Th...

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... scene, Horatio makes an interesting statement: "As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, Disasters in the sun; and the moist star upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse (1.1.117-120)." He compared the ghost as a possible sign of disaster or catastrophe in Denmark, as to what happened before the death of Julius Caesar ... in a garden, the world is being spread with disease, all starting with the incestuous marriage of Gertrude and Claudius. At the end of act one scene four, as the ghost and Hamlet exit, officer Marcellus states that "S...

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