Question

What do Marcellus’s and Horatio’s characterization of the ghost imply?

Answer 1

(D) that something bad is going on

Marcellus: Is it not like the king?

Horatio: As thou art to thyself:

Such was the very armour he had on

When he the ambitious Norway combated;

So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle,

He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.

’Tis strange.

Marcellus: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,

With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.

Horatio: In what particular thought to work I know not;

But in the gross and scope of my opinion,

This bodes some strange eruption to our state.

Answer 2

Here is the answer. What Marcellus's and Horatio's characterization of the ghost implies is that, something bad is going on. This is based on Part 1 of Hamlet. Hope this is the answer that you are looking for. Have a great day!