In-class acting: Hamlet & Ghost

Adam and I decided to act out the first encounter between Hamlet and his father, the ghost the way we did because we wanted to show the vengeance a son would toward the killer have when seeing his dead father in a ghostly form, and the parenting aspect Hamlet Sr. would have when talking to son.  First of all, when someone thinks of a ghost, they think of haunted evil spirits, however, we acted our scene out so that Hamlet wasn't frightened by his fathers ghost.  We did this because we wanted to show that he loved his father, and was willing to do anything for his to get vengeance.  For example, if a child is hospitalized because he was beat up by a kid, the child's parents want nothing other than to see their son get better and to find the kid who committed the crime, and gain justice.  Similar to this situation, Hamlet saw his father dead, and he was so furious that he couldn't even hold his father again that he was sad and vengeful at the same time, thus, furious to see his dad in that state.  So, when we acted our Hamlet and Hamlet Sr. (ghost), we did it in a way that expressed Hamlet's anger and vengeance because of seeing his father like this, and also expressed the ghost's concern for his son, and how he didn't want him to do something stupid.