FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Horatio
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Yorick
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Claudius
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His father, King Hamlet
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Detailed explanation-1: -He asks, ”How long will a body take to decay?” In response, the gravedigger exhumes a skull that belongs to Yorick, the old jester for King Hamlet. Knowing him when he was a child, Hamlet looks at the skull in the eye sockets and shouts his famous “Alas, poor Yorick” speech.
Detailed explanation-2: -Yorick does not play any major role in Hamlet, but his skull does! In the Hamlet skull scene, it is Yorick’s skull that Hamlet holds as he speaks. Yorick was the jester of the king. A jester is the shortened name of a court jester or simply a fool.
Detailed explanation-3: -Summary: In the graveyard at Elsinore, Hamlet and Horatio come upon two gravediggers, one of whom sings while he works. The gravediggers are debating whether the person for whom they are digging the grave committed suicide.
Detailed explanation-4: -Yet upon looking at Yorick’s skull, Hamlet suddenly feels sickened. He realizes what becomes of even the best of people after death-they rot away. For Hamlet, Yorick’s skull symbolizes the inevitable decay of the human body.
Detailed explanation-5: -As he looks upon the skulls, Hamlet talks of the people they may have been in life. Eventually Hamlet begins talking to the gravedigger who, in the middle of their conversation, brings up a third skull, which he reveals is the skull of Yorick, the jester for the late king.