Hamlet’s Ghost In the Shakespearean time period people believed in ghosts and reported them, so it makes sense that Shakespeare would write about a ghost appearing in the play. There is plenty of evidence in the play to prove that the ghost is real.In the first act the ghost appears to two soldiers Marcellus, and Barnardo, as well as to Hamlet’s friend Horatio, who is a very credible and intelligent person. The …showed first 75 words of 465 total…

…showed last 75 words of 465 total…witnesses. However the ghost appeared to Hamlet in the presence of Gertrude, he saw it she didn’t. This doesn’t necessarily mean Hamlet is crazy. Maybe the ghost only appears to whom it wants to appear to. The ghost may not want Gertrude to know about the plan to kill Claudius The evidence in the play shows the fact that the ghost was real. The ghost was not a figment of people’s imagination.