![]() ![]() In the first act of the play young Hamlet’s father, the late King Hamlet of Denmark, appears to some guards on the castle walls. What are ghosts if not an embodiment of our own memory? The ghost in a literary setting almost always directs attention backwards in time and causes the living characters to reflect on prior events. ![]() The past lives on in memories and in that sense, even the dead are alive in us. The Ghost of Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “Purpose is but the Slave to Memory.”
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