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"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreampt of
in our Philosophy"In Shakespeare's time, science and philosophy were the same
discipline, not seperated the way we think of them today. The
subject of death is talked of constantly in Hamlet. It is
examined in all it's aspects; fear of, suicide, religious
(Heaven and Hell, dying in a state of grace vs "all his sins
upon him"), acceptance, the name that lives after, physical
decay of the body, etc. Some of the references are darkly
comic, as in the gravedigger scene and Hamlet's antics after
he kills Polonius.Adventure is a little harder to tie in, but there is discussion
of the "adventure" of warfare where "20,000 go to their graves
like beds" over a worthless plot of ground.Does this help?
Posted by Bombadil on March 21, 1997 at 15:27:38
In Reply to "Philosophy on Hamlet" posted by Rachel on March 21, 1997 at 14:16:42
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