onfess his sins. King Hamlet tellsthe prince because of this he is doomed to spend his days within the purgatorial fires ofhis prison and roam at nights. The ghost then calls upon Hamlet to avenge the murder.Hamlet swears that he will, which will eventually lead to the total decay of him and hisuncle.Many things are rotten in the state of Denmark, and images of decay, corruption,and rottenness are common throughout the first act. In this act, most of the corruptionhas originated from the royalty, and the royalty is directly connected to well being of thestate of Denmark. In that sense, the royalty resembles what Hamlet calls ...an unweededgarden / that grows to seed,(I.ii.135) because in an unweeded garden the weeds willeventually kill and corrupt the once healthy plants. In the 1st act of the play, the rottenroyalty is set on a course that will eventually spoil the whole country and bring it to ruins....
