At the beginning Hamlet’s father dies and many other die as well. When Hamlet’s father dies we see ghost who is the ghost of his dead father coming to tell Hamlet that he was murdered. Ghost just reinforces the death archetype of death in the play. He serves as a constant reminder that Hamlet’s father has died. Hamlet also kills Polonius as well as Claudius these are also two more examples of just how prevalent death is in the play. Hamlets mother gets poisoned, Ophelia drowns so it seems no character is safe in the play and lastly Hamlet himself dies which really pulls the archetype through basically the entire story. One of the best quotes from the play that pretty much sums up death is “Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”(Act 1 Scene 2). When this is said it really leaves a resounding message that no one person or living thing is safe from death, and it also gives a little bit of foreshadowing to the death that is to come in the story. But one of the most famous quotes that really establishes the death archetype in the play has to be Hamlet’s statement “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous
At the beginning Hamlet’s father dies and many other die as well. When Hamlet’s father dies we see ghost who is the ghost of his dead father coming to tell Hamlet that he was murdered. Ghost just reinforces the death archetype of death in the play. He serves as a constant reminder that Hamlet’s father has died. Hamlet also kills Polonius as well as Claudius these are also two more examples of just how prevalent death is in the play. Hamlets mother gets poisoned, Ophelia drowns so it seems no character is safe in the play and lastly Hamlet himself dies which really pulls the archetype through basically the entire story. One of the best quotes from the play that pretty much sums up death is “Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”(Act 1 Scene 2). When this is said it really leaves a resounding message that no one person or living thing is safe from death, and it also gives a little bit of foreshadowing to the death that is to come in the story. But one of the most famous quotes that really establishes the death archetype in the play has to be Hamlet’s statement “To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous