Hamlet’s love for Ophelia. How does Claudius react to the play that Hamlet has the acting troupe perform for the royal court? The King stopped the play. Hamlet and Horatio decided that means that the King was guilty of poisoning King Hamlet like the ghost said.

Claudius reacts to the play itself, which, unlike the dumbshow, makes it clear that the king is murdered by his nephew. He is excited but coherent during his conversation with Horatio before the play, but as soon as the king and queen enter, he begins to act insane, a sign that he is only pretending.

How does Claudius react to The Murder of Gonzago? He does not want to kill Claudius while he is praying, because then Claudius will go straight to heaven.

Claudius’ reaction during the scene where the king is murdered was uncomfortable, once he knew what they play was about and said that he needed “some air”.

Act I, scene v

Why does the ghost of hamlet’s father appear but not speak to the officers on sentinel duty? The Ghost wants to speak to Hamlet directly. He says not to give into Hamlet’s flirting, because he can’t choose who he wants to marry.

The ghost tells Hamlet that he is, in fact, the ghost of his dead father. And there’s more: the ghost claims that Claudius killed him, taking his throne and his wife in the process. He wants Hamlet to kill Claudius in revenge. Shocked, Hamlet agrees and vows to avenge his father’s death.

The Ghost says that Claudius “won to his shameful lust / The will of my most seeming virtuous queen” (1.5. 45-46). (We’d like to know whether that happened before or after Old Hamlet died.

—won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen. But virtue, as it never will be moved, 60 Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, So lust, though to a radiant angel linked, Will sate itself in a celestial bed And prey on garbage.

The Ghost explains that “Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand, / Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch’d;” (thus as I was sleeping, by my brother’s hand was I murdered and deprived of my life, my crown and my wife, Queen Gertrude), (Line 74).

What he means is that he’s going to keep the Ghost’s command for revenge in the forefront of his thoughts, so he will act on it when the moment is right. This is what he is swearing to do.

As he concludes his monologue, the ghost of King Hamlet tells young Hamlet, “Adieu, adieu, adieu! Remember me.” By telling his son to “remember” him, the former king is asking his son to seek revenge against the sin that was committed against him.

Hamlet states, “Remember thee!/ Ay, thou poor ghost, whiles memory holds a seat/ In this distracted globe. In other words, the memory of Hamlet’s father gives Hamlet his sole purpose for the remainder of the story. As long as Hamlet has the power to remember things in his distracted head, he will remember his father. …

Hamlet is justified to obey the ghost and kill Claudius, who killed King Hamlet, the prince’s father. The ghost insinuates that Gertrude is engaging in incest and that Hamlet should not accept to be ashamed of his mother’s action.

In believing that justice is in fact the same as revenge, with nearly invisible difference in matters of action, then revenge can still be conditionally justified: If both the individual and the state have been avenged, it is justice. Hence, further clarification of revenge being conditionally justified is necessary.