What is the effect of Horatio's news of the ghost?
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Well think about it -- what is going on at this point? Hamlet's father has died and his mother is marrying his uncle "hard upon" the heels of his father's death. Now Horatio tells Hamlet that he saw his father's ghost. What does Hamlet do? What state of mind is he in right now? What relationship does he have with Horatio? What questions does he ask Horatio? Please re-read the scene. It's all there in black and white.
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As a somewhat ghost hunter.. my experiences would say no however, ghost are a manifestation of energy and when they draw enough strength strange things can happen. So what I'm saying is its not likely but there is an outside chance that could be a way of communicating especially if how they died involved water or drowning...
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I do have books on the subject, but they are England and American versions. I implore you to use ultimate caution if you become able to conjur the spirits, you may open a portal that you cannot control and the consequences be devastating.
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The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.\n\nHe saw a ghost.\nIt occupied — that dismal thing! —\nThe path that he was following.\nBefore he'd time to stop and fly,\nAn earthquake trifled with the eye\nThat saw a ghost.\nHe fell as fall the early good;\nUnmoved that awful vision stood.\nThe stars that danced before his ken\nHe wildly brushed away, and then\nHe saw a post.\n—Jared Macphester\n\nAccounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of my own experience.\n\nThere is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability, what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith.
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I suspect you are referring to Nostradamus's collected works that some claim are prophetic.\n\nIf so, the idea really isn't all that sound.  The quatrains (verses) in the book are very vague, and with a little imagination can be interpreted to mean almost anything.  You would have as much luck telling the future from the Yellow Pages as you would from Nostradamus.
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Since this is based on Shakespear's "Julius Caesar," I am guessing, talk about the development on how Brutus changed from trusting Caesar to eventually stabbing him in the back. It would be important to talk about Cassius in the sense that he persuaded Brutus slowly but successfully. Go over the importance of the relationship between Brutus, Cassius, and Caesar and how they changed throughout the play.\n\nThat's what I get from it at least. Take a look at Sparknotes.com for help on specific details of the plot you can use to your advantange on this paper.
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how about Billy Bob Thornton?  He is scared of antiques, because antiques are haunted?!  I dunno!
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I dunno if this'll help, but I thought I'd give it a try . . .\nI just read through Macbeth with my lil' bro a little while ago, and I'm rereading Othello now, and it's funny that you ask about the inevitability of prohecies and the first prophecy he gets, because even though there are no prophecies in Othello, Iago does say something about deals with the devil.\nI don't have the book on me, so I can't give a direct quote, but, Iago compares himself to a devil and says that the reason he tells the truth in the beginning of his evil scheme to bring about Othello's downfall is because a demon (or in Hamlet's case a witch) will give you bits of the truth in order to lure you into dealing with them.  That way you will think that they aren't evil, because an evil being would lie.  Does that make sense? \nSo when he saw the first prophecy come true without any action on his part, he thought it would be okay to help the rest of them along, because it was his destiny and not evil magic.  I think the irony is that whether or not he killed Duncan the prophecy should have come true.  Or maybe it was foretold that he would kill Duncan, and the witches just neglected to tell him that part, and knowing that he would, let Lady MacB goad him into it.\nI never read "The Bottle Imp", but it sounds interesting, I think I'll give it a try.\nHope that helps!
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Talk about dark!\n\nIt starts with a Hamlet's father's ghost claiming he was murdered and just gets darker from there.\n\nIts an exploration of madness and suicide.  Ophelia goes crazy and drowns herself.  Hamlet's "to be or not to be" is a direct contemplation of suicide.\n\nHamlet finds his old best friend's skull in the graveyard.\n\n"Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him, Horation, a man of infintite jest and most powerful fancy" a skull\n\nMurder most foul!\n\nbetrayal, incest, murder\n\ngreat stuff! ! !
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Good effect - Information is a click away.\n\nBad effect - We have become too dependent on the computer.
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It's been a while since I analyzed that. I'll just have to go off the cuff here. Darkness seems to be a common setting for the Capulet party at night, the sneaking around between major scenes, going to see the Friar, inside the family tombs, etc. Darkness itself does not necessarily mean evil in this play, but more of the fact that due to miscommunication and violent grudges, people keep acting while being left mentally "in the dark" as to what other options would be available. Darkness may also serve as a sort of foreshadowing of a sad and dark ending to this tragedy.
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I live in a house that's about 200 years old.  There's been some. . .unexplained activity in one of the rooms that's now a bathroom, but was originally a butter/egg room or a storage area (we think).  \n\nMostly, I'd say it's a good thing.  Our ghost seems to want to be helpful, but sometimes she does things that are annoying.  We bought a washer/dryer combo and put in the room and for the first month or so it would turn itself off a LOT.  I guess the ghost figured out, finally, what it was for because that eventually stopped.  And when we first moved in, the door to the dog's yard would open and let the dog into the house when we really needed our puppy to be in her yard because we were moving furniture.\n\nBut she's saved me from some head dings by moving cabinet doors when I wander through the bathroom early in the morning half-asleep.  And she's managed to scare the cats out of the attic when I was trying to get them downstairs before we went on a trip.  She's let the dog in a couple of times when we left our puppy outside thinking the weather was nice and it started raining while we were gone.\n\nAll said. . .hmm.  I like this ghost.  I'll miss her if we move again.  Definitely, if they were all like her, I'd buy a haunted house again.
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to get baffled see this...\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
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yes once I stayed in a house that had a strange tale that a child ghost appeared and enticed a member of the family to a deep pit and hence drowned...this had happened once only in the late 1800s. The inquest into the death was inclonclusive as to whether it was suicide or accidental death - due to sleepwalking. The story gained added credence because another member of the family 20 years later was nearly enticed by the same apparition but came to his senses before walking into the pit. The pit is actually an open well at the end of the estate.\n\nI was alone in this house one weekend, because I was planning to stay a week studying in the house by myself. I need solitude to study. Well the first night I heard a noise in the corridor and whilst trying to investigate it I managed to lock myself out in the dark corridor\n\nit was quite spooky but I kept telling myself that this is so funny and tried to see the humour in this, and tried to find the proverbial black cat in the dark corridor. \n\nThe light switches are on the other side of the corridor...so in the darkness I finally broke a side door and got out of the corridor and by doing that I bruised my shoulder quite badly. \n\nI guess the noise and locking myself out separately can be excluded as mundane events, but in that corridor I just felt so confined and at the same time it was quite chilly despite it being such a warm evening.\n\nThree years later, a priest visiting this house announced that there was a spirit and said he would exorcise it. He moved about the house and starting digging at a place in the garden. The strangest thing is this was the first time he had come to the house, well he found deep (about a feet deep) a doll with steel pins in it and also a small vial of what looked like ash and blood.\n\nIt was quite old - so maybe the voodoo doll was buried by an enemy against someone living in the house decades ago. Anyway, the place they found it was near the corridor...so it was quite freaky...\n\nand I was completely lucid the whole time, that is I hadn't taken any substance...\n\nLast year I visited another house, and felt a lot of disquiet or evil whenever I passed one particular room in the house. Apparently this was the room where the gentleman of the house kept his videos and entertained his friends. Who knows what else he did in that room...\n\nNow, I never disregard these feelings and act on it.\n\nI even feel it sometimes from people...
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Irony is where something different happens than what is expected.  Why would Hamlet call the ghost poor?  Personally, I would be saying "Poor me!  I saw a ghost!  I have creepy powers and can see dead people!!!)
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I have been using ghost for a few years and love it. The DOS thing for along time was real sad. You should review what right 4 you though, you might to look at the reviews.
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How is your friend having trouble with spirits? Add more detail. No, I haven't heard of any strange deaths, and I live in that area. Your friend isn't messing around with spirit stuff (for lack of a better word) is he/she? It's very stupid to play around with that stuff, but I'll wait to see if you add more detail. \n\nTo Sappho - Mothman is WEST Virginia, Pleasent Point if you're refering to the movie.