Hamlet Comic Book
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- Who’s there?
- Nay, answer me. Stand and unfold yourself.
- ’Tis gone.
- Stay, illusion: If thou hast any sound oruse of voice,Speak to me.If there be any good thing to be done. That may to thee do ease, and grace to me, Speak to me;If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,O speak;
- ’Tis here.
- In equal scale weighing delight and dole,Taken to wife. Nor have we herein barr’dYour better wisdoms, which have freely goneWith this affair along. For all, our thanks.
- ’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, to give these mourning duties to your father, but you must know your father lost a father, that father lost, lost his—and the survivor bound in filial obligation for some termTo do obsequious sorrow.
- It all begins near midnight at a castle in Elsinore, Denmark. Bernardo enters to relieve his camarade Francisco. Suddenly two figures emerge from the darkness. Marcellus (another guard) and Horatio (a scholar) have come together to discuss the ghost that Bernardo and Marcellus have been seeing on duty; however Horatio is skeptical.
- Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet.I pray thee stay with us, go not to Wittenberg.
- I shall in all my best obey you, madam.
- To Horartio’s surprise, the ghost appears and resembles the former King Hamlet who recently passed away. Marcellus and Bernardo urge Horartio to speak to the ghost. Horatio orders the ghost to identify itself and speak but instead the ghost disappears. Horatio insists they inform Hamlet about what they’ve seen.
- For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour, hold it a fashion and a toy in blood, a violet in the youth of primy nature, forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, the perfume and suppliance of a minute,no more.
- I shall th’effect of this good lesson keep as watchman to my heart.
- Claudius, the recently appointed King of Denmark, who is also the brother of the former late king makes his inaugural speech. Claudius says that although people should honour the former King through grief they should be wise and move on.
- Look with what courteous action it waves you to a more removed ground.But do not go with it.
- It waves me still.Go on, I’ll follow thee.
- Claudius wonders why Hamlet is still upset about his fathers death. Gertrude equally wants Hamlet to move on and stop grieving. Claudius urges that Hamlet is not wrong for grieving his father but shouldn’t prolong his grief.. Hamlet thinks to himself how it’s possible for his mother to move on so fast and as he thinks becomes angry
- Before Laertes leaves to return to France, he advises his sister Ophelia to stay away from Hamlet. Laertes also expresses how he is against Hamlet and Opheia becoming lovers. Ophelia promises to keep his advice in mind and their father reiterates this advice to Ophelia.
- After Horatio tells Hamlet about the ghost, they wait alongside Marcellus for the ghost to reappear. The ghost reappears and makes a gesture for Hamlet to follow it. Horatio advises Hamlet against this but Hamlet continues to follow the ghost. Marcellus and Horatio follow him.
- It beckons you to go away with it, as if it some impartment did desire to you alone.
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