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No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 1, Page 6 - 0 views

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Of this posthaste and rummage in the land
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  So Denmark is not a stable country, and now to add to the problems the ghost of the old King has started appearing. Tone is ominous and indicates possible conflict in the future.
  
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As harbingers preceding still the fates And prologue to the omen coming on, Have heaven and earth together demonstrated Unto our climatures and countrymen.
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  Theme of superstition + more foreboding
  
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  some great tragedy is about to occur in Denmark if the omen of the ghost's presence is any indication
  
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And even the like precurse of feared events,
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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 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.
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  Imagery is unsettling and horrific. Descriptions convey darkness, evil and something against nature (tenantless graves and solar eclipses)
  
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No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 1, Page 5 - 0 views

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And why such daily cast of brazen cannon And foreign mart for implements of war, Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week. What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
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  imagery of war establishes urgency in the play
  
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No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 1, Page 4 - 0 views

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In what particular thought to work I know not, But in the gross and scope of mine opinion This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
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  Foreboding - why is the presence of the King's ghost so unsettling for Horatio?
  
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No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 1 - 0 views

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For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart
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  tone: cold and depressing
  
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No Fear Shakespeare: Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 1, Page 2 - 0 views

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honest
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  friends, liegemen, honest theme of loyalty is hinted at
  
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