Hamlet Act 1 Scene 1

Question 1
In this scene the character Francisco, Bernardo, Horatio, and Marcellus are introduced. I guess that you could argue that the old King Hamlet and the king of Norway where also introduced. The act starts off where Fransisco comes to relive Bernardo of his gaurd position for the night and they are both really jumpy while they are talking. Then Horatio and Marcellus come to talk to Francisco about the ghost that Marcellus and Francisoco have seen two times already. The ghost is supposed to look like their dead King but Horatio doesn't believe them till the ghost comes out and the Horatio starts yelling at it to talk to him but it doesn't and disapperas. After it goes, Horatio starts saying that a ghost is a bad omen then Marcellus asks why they are on gaurd duty and why are they preparing for war? Horatio answers that it's because their old king fought the old king of Norway to try and win his lands. Their king killed the king of Norway so he got all the land. The king of NOrway's son is mad about this so he is taking groups of bad people and hiding them so they can win back the land. Bernardo says that everything makes sense now. Then Horatio uses a historical allusion and talks about how this reminds him of Rome before it fell. Then the ghost comes again and Horatio starts trying to get it to talk to him again but a rooster crows and the ghost goes away. Horatio then speaks about how he has heard that the rooster calls the ghosts back to whereever they go in the day and that this has probed that right. Then he says that maybe the ghost will speak to its son Hamlet. Then the scene ends.
Question 2
The sentence I think is most important in this scene is when Horatio is talking to the ghost and he says"What are thous that usurp'st this time of night, together with that fair and warlike form in which the majsety of buried Denmark did sometimes march." Without it, the ghost would be thought of as something frightening and something to be truly feared, but in reality, it looks just tlike the king did before he died and not scary at all.
Question 4
My favorite line form this whole scene is when Joratio is talking to the ghost and he says "By heaven, I charge thee, speak!" This explains to me that Horatio thinks very highly of himself. So highly in fact, that he thinks that he can command other-wordly things to talk to him. I think he comes off as really conceded when he says that. Also he comes off kind of like he thinks he can do whatever he wants. Really, why would you try to boss around a ghost?