Polonius then turns to her and asks her about the relationship that she has with Hamlet. Ophelia tells Polonius that Hamlet has confessed that he loved, her and Polonius laughs and calls her ignorant, then orders her to stay away from Hamlet and she promises to obey. (Bloom5).
The ghost tells Hamlet that he is the spirit of Hamlet's father who has returned to earth to urge him to seek revenge. The ghost explains to Hamlet that his Uncle Claudius who took advantage of him murdered him while he was asleep by pouring poison into his ears and telling everybody that he was bitten by a snake. "Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, a serpent stung me."(Ghost) "I am thy father's spirit, doomed for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, thy knotted and combined locks to part, and each particular hair to stand an end like quills upon the fearful porpentine, but this eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! If thou didst ever thy dear father love."(Ghost) The ghost also tells Hamlet that he was killed before he had the chance to confess his sins, and consequently he is cursed to wander in afterlife, then he orders Hamlet to kill Claudius but not harm Gertrude, then he disappeared. (Bloom6).
Hamlet is confused about whether to believe the ghost or not. Hamlet decided to pretend to be mad in order to fool Claudius and Gertrude long enough to know whether Claudius really killed his father or not. (Stanley3).
Ophelia tells her father that Hamlet has gone mad because he entered into the room where she was sewing and grabbed her wrist.
