- What did he have to realize about the soul and body?
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2007-03-25 14:16:31 · 6 answers · asked by Kelly P 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
In Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech, he displays his belief that people are only willing to suffer through the pains of life due to fear of the "undiscovered country" of death. In his later speeches, like his "Poor Yorick" speech, Hamlet sees death as an equalizer that turns all men to dust in the end, whether they were great kings or beggars. These speeches give some evidence of his fear of death, or at least his desire to constantly evaluate it. I think that his turning point when he begins to accept death and stop evaluating it is when he returns to Denmark and sees Ophelia has died. He feels grief and I believe some guilt over her death, and from this point is when he seems to essentially give up on his scheming, remarking to Horatio that he will operate by God's will. So, even when he is suspicious of the duel with Laertes, he accepts. I think this shows he has given up on life in a way, and because of he gives up on life he gets over his fear of death.
2007-03-26 05:27:48 · answer #1 · answered by dittybop 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He speaks to his father from beyond the grave and learns that in some form or another, life goes on. However, I dont think Hamlet was truly unafraid of death. He absolutely planned to win that duel. Pax - C.
2007-03-25 15:51:07 · answer #2 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think he feared death. He feared life as a king. Whether or not he killed Claudius, he would inherit the throne. He just wanted to be a student in Wittenberg, not a king who would be responsible for wars where thousands would die for a plot of ground scarcely large enough to bury the dead. As a king, his body would live, but his soul would be doomed, like the soul of Claudius.
2007-03-26 08:55:59 · answer #3 · answered by Ray Eston Smith Jr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, at the end the stage looks like the ending scen from Die hard, as everyone is dead, but do you want to give us a particular death (Ophilia) and we can tell you the effect?
2016-03-17 02:19:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everyone gets over the fear of death cause they die.
2007-03-25 14:23:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, when he heard his buddies Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were dead, he figured it couldn't be all that bad...
2007-03-25 14:43:09 · answer #6 · answered by poohba 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋