ng. She did not even wait until the redness disappeared from her eyes before she married Claudius.
             In Act 1 Scene 5, we see the meeting of the ghost with Hamlet. The ghost is going to give some information that is going to alter Hamlet's destiny, one revelation that will change Hamlet's destiny. The ghost gives out the terrible secret. "The serpent that did sting thy father's life/Now wears his crown." Animal imagery is used here. Claudius is compared to the serpent, the most vilely, the most lowest of status.
             He knew it was his uncle, his hatred towards his marriage had a deeper explanation. Hamlet turns out to be a very sensitive soul. "O my prophetic soul! My uncle!" The ghost asks Hamlet to take revenge. Hamlet is not really equipped by nature to take revenge. He is reflective, philosophical, the scholar prince with too much sensitivity in nature to go on path of revenge. Hamlet fails as an instrument to revenge.
             Hamlet doesn't want anyone to know about what happened during the meeting and therefore
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