FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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The inevitability of death
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The meaning of life
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The beauty of nature
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The consequences of his actions
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, weighing the pain and unfairness of life against the alternative, which might be worse.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the Hamlet skull scene, Hamlet holds Yorick’s skull and contemplates on the vanity of his own life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Observing them, Hamlet ponders all the different skulls in the graveyard, wondering who they once belonged to. Picking one up, Hamlet learns that it once belonged to Yorick, who was the court jester at Elsinore when Hamlet was a boy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet picks up a skull, and the gravedigger tells him that the skull belonged to Yorick, King Hamlet’s jester. Hamlet tells Horatio that as a child he knew Yorick and is appalled at the sight of the skull.
Detailed explanation-5: -The encounter with the gravedigger is clearly a turning point for Hamlet in which he realizes the two truths that are the theme of the play: death is inevitable; death is universal. By thus dramatizing the theme and placing a statement of it on the protagonist’s lips, Shakespeare conveys this message to the audience.