According to the book Backwards and Forwards by David Ball, action takes place when something happens that causes another thing to happen. It is the cause and effect idea and each play, story, and even movie, is filled with action following action until a stasis is reached. In the play Hamlet by Shakespeare, there are a lot of important action scenes, but the scene I have chosen to analyze is the scene when Hamlet meets the ghost because this is the scene where the main character was given a motive. 

What I found interesting about this play was that the motive was not evident nor predictable from the beginning. When I read this play I had no idea what the storyline was and I was shocked when I saw the appearance of supernatural themes. I thought that the scene with the ghost was a dream and I had to reread it once I realized that it was most certainly not a dream. The ghost gave Hamlet his purpose in this scene. While reading this scene I thought of the ghost as a kind ghost who was misunderstood by Hamlet's friends, but the 1996 movie with Kenneth Branagh gave me a whole other take on the scene. I felt scared seeing that ghost and I watched Hamlet go from scared to sad. From reading the play I thought Hamlet would be fearless and then mad. As I watched the movie I discovered that not everyone took the scenes the same way and that due to these different interpretations, Hamlet's personality is not written in stone. 

I liked this scene a lot because it is open to many different interpretations and it went beyond my expectations of the pay. It also is the beginning of a long journey for Hamlet and in order to understand how the story ends, you need to understand how it begins.