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Scene 1, lines 25-28: What inferences can you make after reading these lines? Identify specific information that supports your inf

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If it is from Maple Danish here is the answer for it,and see if these lines match
Therefore I have entreated him along
With us to watch the minutes of this night;

That if again this apparition come,

He may approve our eyes and speak to it

There are lots of textual details to explore here — the presence or absence of a comma after “With us,” for instance, which could alter an actor’s delivery significantly — but the meat in these lines is all condensed into one word: “apparition.” Here, at last, is our first explicit reference to the play’s supernatural catalyst.So, when Marcellus says “this apparition,” there would not be much doubt in the audience’s minds that he is talking about a phantom. The only other possible explanation would be some astrological event — a reading which could be supported by the previous line’s “watch the minutes of the night,” and which gets taken up again shortly when Barnardo describes “yond same star that’s westward from the pole.”
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