FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Gravediggers make fun of burying a suicide in holy ground.
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Laertes & Hamlet fight & struggle at Ophelia’s grave.
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Hamlet picks up & contemplates the skull of Yorrick.
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Gertrude scatters flowers & says, “Sweets to the sweet.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Gravediggers appear briefly in Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet, making their only appearance at the beginning of Act V, scene i. They are first encountered as they are digging a grave for the newly deceased Ophelia, discussing whether she deserves a Christian burial after having killed herself.
Detailed explanation-2: -Scene 1. As Hamlet returns to Elsinore he sees two men digging a grave. As the funeral party approaches it becomes obvious it’s Ophelia’s grave. The two young men argue about who loved Ophelia most.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet asks the gravedigger whose grave he digs, and the gravedigger spars with him verbally, first claiming that the grave is his own, since he is digging it, then that the grave belongs to no man and no woman, because men and women are living things and the occupant of the grave will be dead.
Detailed explanation-4: -The gravediggers are debating whether the person for whom they are digging the grave committed suicide.