Essay B

Final Exam: Topic D

Many people don't believe in ghost, but a ghost doesn't have to be a floating white transparent figure. It could be a person that died and has come to you in a vision, premonition, dream, or epiphany to help reveal something. In this semester, we've read a few stories that have ghost in them or dead people with significance in in them.

In "Hamlet", the ghost happened to be Hamlet's father. He never really recovered from the death of his father and because of that, his father came to him as a ghost (in this case he was a transparent figure because Hamlet was not the only one that saw him). When his father appeared he made Hamlet follow him to the top of the tower to be secluded to reveal how he died. "The serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown." (Scene V, Hamlet) Hamlet's father told him that Claudius, his brother, had killed him with poison, he didn't die in war. Hamlet thought thought he was becoming crazy because of the death of his father. He came up with a scheme to make Claudius confess or show guilt. In this case, the ghost revealed a truth that was covered by a lie.

Unlike "Hamlet", there was no floating ghostly figure in "A Rose for Emily", although there was some type of spirit there.

Emily never got past the death of her father either. But she dealt with it in an entirely different way than that of Hamlet. Emily's father was her best friend and he was all she had. When he died she felt as if she lost everything and she had to other real family to comfort her in the hard time of need. She seemed normal everyone else because they figured she was mourning her father's death. When she started doing things out of character, like courting outside of her social class, people started to become worried. When Emily died, the people of the town got the realization, not Emily. They realized that she was not doing well after her father had passed. She had been sleeping next to her dead husband's corpse....