Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most well known and performed play. There are two scenes that I believe are important in the play. One of them are when the ghost speaks to Hamlet and the other when Hamlet holds a skull. In Act I, Scene 5, the ghost first speaks to Hamlet. “I am thy father’s spirit Doomed for a certain term to walk the night And for the day confined to fast in fires Till …showed first 75 words of 506 total…

…showed last 75 words of 506 total…Make her laugh at that.” (p288). Here Hamlet remembers as a child his close relationship to Yorick, and confronts the physical results of death. This being Hamlet’s first physical encounter with a dead person theat he held close to his heart, changed the way he perceives death. In conclusion, I feel these two scenes were of great importance in the play Hamlet because they mark the beginning and the end to his tragic life.