Act 1 Scene 5 opens with the ghost exposing to Hamlet the protagonist that he is his father and asks him to avenge his most foul strange and unnatural murder He reveals to Hamlet that Claudius his brother seduced his queen an act of incest to him and then killed him by pouring the poison Habenon in his ear while he lay sleeping in his orchard The orchard which is a microcosm of the Garden of Eden is symbolic of the story of Adam and Eve where the malicious snake Claudius manages to influence Ev