ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Yorick is the fictional former jester of king of Denmark, named in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet . The name reappears some years later in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. One of the characters in Sterne’s comic novel is Parson Yorick, a name later used as a pseudonym by Sterne.

Detailed explanation-2: -The skull of Yorick, the former jester of Hamlet’s late father, represents the inevitability of death and the existential meaninglessness of life in light of this fact.

Detailed explanation-3: -At first, Hamlet remembers Yorick, the court jester, fondly. He recalls Yorick’s good nature and his positive childhood experiences with him. 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -come; make her laugh at that.” And so, if we want to know about the late Yorick himself, there he is as Hamlet remembers him – giving the children of the court piggybacks; a very imaginative and intelligent jester; an affectionate man.

Detailed explanation-5: -He was the King’s jester and once poured a flagon of Rhenish on the head of a gravedigger, who described him as a “whoreson mad fellow". Hamlet, who knew him well, said that he was a “fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy". A clown claimed he had “dreadful teeth".