- Shakespeare wants his audience to want to know the answers
- The setting is in a castle, possibly Elsinore, in Denmark, and it is midnight
- exeunt: more than one person is leaving the scene
- read by the punctuation and not the lines
- the boys saw a ghost
- usurp: disturbed; disrupted
- Marcellus asks why is a ghost disturbing them?
- Hamlet and his father have identical names
- Hamlet Sr. killed Fortinbras Sr. who has a nephew with the same name as well
- Hamlet Sr. died but won Fortinbras
- Horatio is simply telling what he was told and was not actually there when it occurred
- King ghost appears because something is wrong
- alludes to Julius Caesar with both the plot and writing style
- They all figure if the ghost won't talk to them then he will surely speak to his son, Hamlet
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