In the movie, Hamlet ran after the ghost instead of staying in the safety of his friend’s presence. He did not know if the ghost was his father, so this was a very risky move on his part. In the book, he followed the ghost after the ghost beckoned, but there are no stage directions that imply Hamlet chasing after the Ghost. (Act 1. Sc 5. Ln 97) The movie added an aspect of how Hamlet might have been mad before finding out that Claudius was the one that killed his father. After the conversation with the Ghost, Hamlet ran around striking rocks with his …show more content…
This was not written into the play. It could have been interpreted as aggressive in the book, but the stage directions made no implication of him actually pushing her around as the movie portrayed. Hamlet had loved his mom a lot, and to be physically aggressive showed that Hamlet was not in a great state of mind. He had promised to only be intimidating by his voice, not physically. The movie included the detail that Gertrude did could not see the Ghost when he entered Gertrude’s chambers. Gertrude did not hear or see the Ghost (Act 3. Sc 4. Ln 153) while Hamlet spoke to him. This detail causes the audience to wonder if Hamlet ever did see the Ghost or if all of this was made