How Does Hamlet Live After Death
The path of a human being is set off by many obstacles, yet human beings question what awaits them in their life “beyond the grave.” In the play Hamlet, the author William Shakespeare, portrays the character of Hamlet, who struggles throughout the play to understand the idea whether is it better to live or to die, which leaves the universal question unanswered: “What awaits humans after death?”
Throughout the play, this question plagues Hamlet if he should take his life and if it is morally the right thing to do; in which he utters the phrase “To be or to not be: that is the question; / Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer.” In these lines Hamlet is thinking about being alive or being dead, which he considers life is being in a passive …show more content…
He takes on to account that if he takes his own life he can “sleep” and …show more content…
The skull itself is a physical reminder of the finality of death and what's to come after death, as Hamlet was able to see death in the eye. Which allows Hamlet to realize that death eliminates the differences between people and the hierarchical structure of society is illusory and ultimately crumbles into “dust”, just like the bones of those long gone. Which he extends towards his soliloquy that “Alexander died, Alexander was buried, / Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth / we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was / converted might they not stop a beer barrel? / Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.” Here, Hamlet denotes that despite of the power and the reputation that both Alexander and Caesar hold, they both are “buried” and their death meets no exception because their bodies will rot, only to be recycled into the earth as generations before them. This denotes that every living thing must come to the earth and return to the earth, when it dies off. This scene exemplifies Hamlet’s character development, as he is able to see through Yorick’s skull and takes a mature outlook onto death, which he shows no sense of madness and he realizes that he must “let be.” Through Yorick's Skull and his soliloquies about Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar; it signifies that
Throughout the play, this question plagues Hamlet if he should take his life and if it is morally the right thing to do; in which he utters the phrase “To be or to not be: that is the question; / Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer.” In these lines Hamlet is thinking about being alive or being dead, which he considers life is being in a passive …show more content…
He takes on to account that if he takes his own life he can “sleep” and …show more content…
The skull itself is a physical reminder of the finality of death and what's to come after death, as Hamlet was able to see death in the eye. Which allows Hamlet to realize that death eliminates the differences between people and the hierarchical structure of society is illusory and ultimately crumbles into “dust”, just like the bones of those long gone. Which he extends towards his soliloquy that “Alexander died, Alexander was buried, / Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth; of earth / we make loam; and why of that loam whereto he was / converted might they not stop a beer barrel? / Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, / Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.” Here, Hamlet denotes that despite of the power and the reputation that both Alexander and Caesar hold, they both are “buried” and their death meets no exception because their bodies will rot, only to be recycled into the earth as generations before them. This denotes that every living thing must come to the earth and return to the earth, when it dies off. This scene exemplifies Hamlet’s character development, as he is able to see through Yorick’s skull and takes a mature outlook onto death, which he shows no sense of madness and he realizes that he must “let be.” Through Yorick's Skull and his soliloquies about Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar; it signifies that