Hamlet Having Been Away, Laertes Term Paper

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The gravediggers are named clowns but they jest upon the macabre issue of Ophelia's Christian burial.

They highlight once more the existential issue of death, only that they question man's freedom to choose life or death. Comic relief is needed, because the play is coming towards its end and in order for readers to experience catharsis they should not be burdened excessively with emotional tension. The scene in the cemetery shows Hamlet's mental evolution in what concerns death. He is no longer furious, he has accepted the fact that men are mortal, including himself and he can't fight this fact, famous celebrities couldn't either and moreover, he is able to detach from his human condition in a playful way. The irony is visible if we compare his actual state of mind with that when he spoke his famous soliloquy: "To be or not to be." In the end, Hamlet urges

Horatio to stay alive and make his story known, for he fought to set the world right.


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