Explain the context of the following quotation and how it sets the tone for the play. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." Your answer should be at least one hundred words.
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The given quote sets the dark tone for the play by referring to the rotten state of politics in Denmark.

Explanation:

'Hamlet' is a play written by William Shakespeare. The given quote is taken from 'Hamlet', Act I, Scene IV. And spoken by Marcellus.

This quote was spoken when Hamlet follows the ghost or appartition of his deceased father, King Hamlet. After seeing Hamlet follow the appartition into the forest, Marcellus states the given quote 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' The context in which Marcellus states the quote is stating to the state that something is wrong not only in politics but the whole state.

The quote further sets the dark tone of the play by foreshadowing the darkness and rottennes that was about to take place in Denmark. The play after this event sets forth to dark phase. The presence of ghost in the state represents the fate of Denmark.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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