LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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There is such a thing as an afterlife.
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Dreams always tell the truth.
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There are some aspects of existence that cannot be explained through reason.
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Heaven exists on earth.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet suggests that human knowledge is limited: There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science].
Detailed explanation-2: -“And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet is often perceived as a philosophical character. Some of the most prominent philosophical theories in Hamlet are relativism, existentialism, and scepticism. Hamlet expresses a relativist idea when he says to Rosencrantz: “there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so” (2.2.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet tells Horatio again that he is dying, and urges his friend not to commit suicide in light of all the tragedies, but instead to stay alive and tell his story. He says that he wishes Fortinbras to be made King of Denmark; then he dies.