FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Because the gravediggers are indentured servants while the skull was a wealthy man
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Because indentures are created by gravediggers
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It is not an example of a pun
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Because the word indentures sounds like ‘dentures’ or teeth of the skull
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the Hamlet skull scene, William Shakespeare implements Yorick’s skull as a dramatic instrument. It represents the theme of “memento mori” and forms the dramatic basis of the play. Using the skull, Shakespeare portrays the futility of life and inevitability of death symbolically.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Hamlet tells Horatio that as a child he knew Yorick and is appalled at the sight of the skull. He realizes forcefully that all men will eventually become dust, even great men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet, returned from his journey, comes upon a gravedigger singing as he digs. Hamlet tries to find out who the grave is for and reflects on the skulls that are being dug up. A funeral procession approaches. Hamlet soon realizes that the corpse is Ophelia’s.