Hamlet

Why dos Marcellus think they offended the ghost?

Act 1 sc 1

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Marcellus thinks they offended the ghost by offering him the show of violence. I believe that Marcellus throws his partisan at the ghost:

We do it wrong, being so majestical,
To offer it the show of violence;
For it is as the air, invulnerable,
And our vain blows malicious mockery.