"The serpent that did sting thy father's life,
Now wears his crown."With this passage, the ghost of the late King of Denmark reveals that it is his brother (the new King) who killed him to take the throne. This prompts a question to Hamlet: should he seek revenge on his uncle and avenge his father, or just let it go? The ghost also tells Hamlet to not punish his mother for marrying his treacherous uncle. Hamlet is also faced with the decision as to heed the ghost's request.
A quick question, though. What will make this ghost go back to purgatory or wherever it was that it was residing? Is it one of those "avenge me" things? Or is it a "I need to help you accomplish something before I get to move on" thing?
This scene, much like the rest of the scenes in Act 1, supplies the exposition of the story by creating conflict between Hamlet, the protagonist, and the other characters in the play, and without it, there would be hardly any conflict or story.
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