The first belief that you can see in the play is the ghost of Hamlets father. The tie with religion is if you believed in a ghost then you believe in a life after death and that's what most religions have to do with. With the ghost showing up in the beginning of the play tells you that the people back then believed in some form of religion right in the beginning the play. To find out what religion the play is centered around you have to look to the ghost. The ghost says that it was killed in a time when it was sinning and so it can not go to heaven. The religion that most reflects this b

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eliefs in that time would be Catholicism. You could also know that by the fact that they were the only major religion back then. There was another religion starting up called Lutheranism. Lutheranism began when Martin Luther put the ninety-five thesis on the Catholic churches door.

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