From the novel; Hamlet
This question is based on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
‘But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother….’
The ghost exhorts young Hamlet not to kill his mother because
- his wife is bewitched into falling for Claudius' seduction
- the ghost wishes her to be left to the torment of her conscience
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the ghost still loves his wife even in death
- the young Hamlet will be guilty of matricide