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In Hamlet Explain why Denmark was making preparations for war.
In Hamlet Explain why Denmark was making preparations for war.
Soon after the ghost’s disappearance, Marcellus asks the other two why there has been such a massive mobilization of Danish war forces recently. Horatio answers, saying that the Danish army is preparing for a possible invasion by Fortinbras, Prince of Norway. We learn that Fortinbras’ father (also named Fortinbras), was killed many years before in single combat with Old Hamlet, the now-deceased king whose ghost we have just seen. Now that Old Hamlet has died, presumably weakening the Danes, there is a rumor that young Fortinbras plans to invade Denmark and claim that lands that were forfeit after his father’s death.
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