Question

PLEASE HELP FAST!!!!!!! In Act I, Scene 5, Hamlet receives a visit from who he thinks is the ghost of his father. The ghost tells Hamlet that Claudius, Hamlet's uncle and current king, is responsible for his father's murder. The ghost then urges Hamlet to avenge his father's death.
If the brain is responsible for a character's reactions to stimuli, both internal and external, what affect would the ghost have on Hamlet's brain?



Question 1 options:

The ghosts have no mental effect on Hamlet because he ignored them.


Hamlet becomes confused between reality and imagination, and therefore becomes distrusting of his environment and the people in it.


The ghosts create haunting memories of his father and create a desire to seek revenge.

I think c

Answer 1

The answer is:

The ghosts create haunting memories of his father and create a desire to seek revenge.  

In Act 1, Scene 5 from Shakespeare's "Hamlet," the protagonist is faced with an external stimuli like his father's ghost, who tells him to seek revenge. As a consequence, his brain is in a state of confusion and indecisiveness. On the one hand, his internal stimuli wishes to avenge his father's unfair death and becomes obsessed with it. However, he is a distinguished, gentlemanly prince who has never thought of killing anyone because he is simply not a murderer.

Answer 2

The answer is definitely C)The ghost create haunting memories of his father and create a desire to seek revenge

The ghost's purpose is to influence Hamlet in order for him to kill his uncle.  Said spirit knows that the most efficient way to get Hamlet to become a murderer is an internal conflict in which Hamlet has to decide between his inner feelings and facing the concequences of doing so.

Hope this helps!