This image also portrays decay within the corrupt environment. The Phantom is used in the images as an external observer. The Specter is the only one qualified to have an auspicious judgment. Hamlet talks to the Ghost, who is Hamlet's father. The Ghost tells Hamlet who he is and why he is here with him. The imagery in the quote will help the reader feel how hurt the Ghost is inside him and how he feels trapped in his soul on Earth. “I am the spirit of your father, condemned for a time to walk by night, and for the day confined to fast in the fire, until the horrible crimes committed in my natural days are burned and eliminated. If I were not forbidden to tell the secrets of my prison, I could reveal a tale whose lightest word would torment your soul, freeze your young blood, make your two eyes start, like stars, from their spheres, your knotted eyes and combined the strands to separate, and each particular hair standing upright like quills on the irritable little pig. But this eternal blazon must not be for ears of flesh and blood. List, list, oh, list! If you ever loved your dear father. (Act I scene IV verses 1-23) The quote explains how the environment in Denmark decayed because the Ghost was explaining how he felt confined in the fires (hell). The ghost signals the progress of corruption and leads to the deaths from 'illness' of Hamlet, Claudius and Polonius.