Hamlet Inevitability Of Death Essay

The Inevitability of Death Death is one of the few things apart from our birth that persist, and it is quite simply beyond our direct control. In Hamlet, William Shakespeare utilizes metaphor and satire to confront the frailty of human mortality. The play revolves utterly on death by emphasizing that our world is made up of death and decay. It was the death of Hamlet’s father that makes the plot of the play. In Act 5, Scene 2, lines 1 through 4, King Claudius begins by acknowledging previous King Hamlet’s death while stating, “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death the memory be green, and that it us befitted to bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom to be contracted in one brow of woe….”. Shakespeare expressed a metaphorical tone by explaining that the memory of the Old King Hamlet is “green”. The idea of the memory being “green” can be thought of by the unwelcomed death of Old King Hamlet as it is still fresh on their minds. However, the New King quickly reminds the guessed that it is wise and in their best interest for the “whole kingdom” (1.2.3) to move on. Hamlet will later learn that King Claudius, his uncle, is responsible for the death of his father. Filling
However, in the last act Hamlet comprehends that whatever happens was destine to happen when he states, “Not a whit, we defy augury. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ‘t to leave betimes? Let be.” (5.2.119-124). In this statement, Shakespeare is alluding to the very fact of death itself. Hamlet no longer attempts to understand the unknown, but accepts it as such. Shakespeare points out the philosophical acceptance of fate, the struggles and fear of imminent death people