The ghost was evil. The ghost did not show up after Hamlet killed Polonius and left Hamlet to suffer all alone. He again offered no guidance or comfort, only the order to kill Claudius. If the ghost was actually his father, he would be trying to help him. His actions caused a series of actions through Hamlet which lead to a series of deaths including his own and the great tragedy that is Hamlet. He was just a puppeteer who held Hamlet's strings and brought his evil deeds into play. Works Cited Miles 4Shakespeare, William, 1554-1616, “Hamlet” The Norton Introduction to Literature, edited by Kelly J. Mays, portable 12th ed., WW Norton 2017 pp.1101-1210.John Mullan “Ghosts in Shakespeare”, Web March 15, 2016 < https://www.bl.uk/shakespeare/articles/ghosts-in-shakespeare >O'Connor '06, Bridget, ""Spirit of Health" and "Goblin Damned": King Hamlet's Ghost as a symbol of religious ambiguity in England during the Religious Reformation" (2006). Honor projects. Article 5. < https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1001 &context=eng_honproj >Joseph, Miriam, December 1961., “Discerning the Ghost in Hamlet” PMLA, vol 76 , n 5,