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When I started reading Hamlet I realized that in this play there are many characteristics shared with the other Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. In both plays there are apparitions. In Macbeth the three witches appear to Macbath and Banquo and in Hamlet the ghosts appear to Barnardo, Horatio and Marcellus. In Hamlet this characteristic can be clearly seen in Act 1, Scene 1, lines 27-29:
ReplyDelete“With us to watch the minutes of this night,
That, if again this apparition come,
He may approve our eyes and speak to it”
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