Hamlet #2

Here, Hamlet aligns himself with the response to death which he find to be the more acceptable. As previously established, he has little respect for the response that Claudius and his mother have had to his father's death. At start of scene for there is an ongoing celebration in the interior which Hamlet has chosen to distance himself from, saying "indeed it takes/ From our achievements, though perform'd at height," (I.iv). He feels that such behavior deteriorates the reputation of the state and its people. At this time, the ghost appears to him and Hamlet must decide if he trusts it enough to follow it, but eventually he reaches the conclusion that is does not matter, and falls back to Christian beliefs "And for my soul, what can it do to that,/ Being a thing immortal as itself?" (I.iv). The decision to go against his fears and to follow the ghost, a lingering representation of death, alongside his admission that he does not care what happens to him because his souls is immortal most likely serves as foreshadowing for the tragedy that will affect him,