Most plays pose some kind of physiological questions, but both plays “Hamlet” and “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern” portray the question of what happens in the afterlife - or the possibility of there not even being an afterlife. The two plays are continuously debating the existential theories of life - sometimes with humor and sometimes completely serious. The main idea in Hamlet is the fact that revenge could just be a cousin of death. While in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, they mainly go back on forth of the whole idea of our existence and what will happen once we stop existing. Even though these two plays were written at different periods in time, they're both still pondering the same question - what happens after death?
The play Hamlet …show more content…
His play is also very aware of the fact that death simply can’t be captured in art of any media. One of the main characters, Guildenstern, sees death as a negative event in the human life cycle. He comprehends it as something that humans are incapable of ever even thinking about. Because of his mindset, whenever he sees acted out deaths in plays, he labels it as pretense and claims to put something on stage that one simply cannot. Guildenstern's rival,which is the Player, thinks that no one can tell the difference between a death in a play and one in reality , and he decides to give his audience the sort of entertainment they desire, which happens to be death. On page 70 of the book Rosencrantz starts wondering about the afterlife and what exactly happens in it. He says “It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead…which should make all the difference…shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in the box, would you? It would be just like being asleep in a box. mind you, not without any air – you'd wake up dead, for a start, and then where would you be? Apart from inside a box.” With this quote, the reader is really able to dig deep on the existential parts of life. Rosencrantz brings
The play Hamlet …show more content…
His play is also very aware of the fact that death simply can’t be captured in art of any media. One of the main characters, Guildenstern, sees death as a negative event in the human life cycle. He comprehends it as something that humans are incapable of ever even thinking about. Because of his mindset, whenever he sees acted out deaths in plays, he labels it as pretense and claims to put something on stage that one simply cannot. Guildenstern's rival,which is the Player, thinks that no one can tell the difference between a death in a play and one in reality , and he decides to give his audience the sort of entertainment they desire, which happens to be death. On page 70 of the book Rosencrantz starts wondering about the afterlife and what exactly happens in it. He says “It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead…which should make all the difference…shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never know you were in the box, would you? It would be just like being asleep in a box. mind you, not without any air – you'd wake up dead, for a start, and then where would you be? Apart from inside a box.” With this quote, the reader is really able to dig deep on the existential parts of life. Rosencrantz brings