Hamlet : watch play + read and make notes +read the study guide Scene 1 “Who’s there” Question ironic implications (on going questions about ghost) Reflects rest of play “ starting like a guilty thing” signals ambiguous nature” Referred to as “it” “Thing” Urgent and economical use of colloquial conversation, eerie tense atmosphere Verse does not flow Broken rhymes generate unease, apphrension feelings “ sick at heart” - mental disease throughtout whole play Threat of invasion, coldness, skepticism Horatio scholar, sceptic , christian , moral torchstone , no doubt ghost “something more than fantasy” Rational scholar, Differential to ghost “starting like a guilty things signals ambiguous nature”Refered to as “it” “ Thing”Refelcts rest of the play Scene 2 Claudius to laertes : Deal with threat of invasion and Underline power: (scene contrast ...