Hamlet Quote Log #3

"Hate me to know't, that I, with wings as swift / As meditation or the thoughts of love, / May sweep to my revenge" (1.5.35-38).

Hamlet has only been talking to the ghost for a few seconds, and all of a sudden Hamlet is fumed with anger to get revenge upon someone.  He compares his celerity to revenge to be faster than the love someone can give.  The audience finds out that the ghost proclaims that King Claudius is the one who has slain Hamlet's father.  There is no proof that the ghost is real though.  Some may argue that the ghost is real because this apparition was physically seen by Marcellus, Barnardo, and Horatio in the first scene.  I believe that the ghost is not real because Hamlet is too quick in his decisions.  From previous scenes, the reader knows that Hamlet is compassionate and he honors his father.  It is a possibility that Hamlet is misusing his emotions to believe that there is a ghost, and the ghost is guiding him to do actions sub-consciously.  The ghost is not real, but Hamlet's emotions are.  In the end of the scene, Hamlet does not want anyone to know that he is talking to a ghost because it might make him seem crazy.  I feel like this foreshadows that there is no ghost, when really Hamlet is just expressing his emotions because he was not able to in front of his parents in scene two.