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One of the themes of Hamlet (one of many) is that it is a mediation on the nature of death. What does it actually mean to die? Could one's spirit return as an avenging ghost (like Hamlet's father)? Does one pass into some other existance ("The undiscovered country...")? Or does one's body simply decompose in the ground, to leave nothing but a heap of bones and a few memories in the minds of the survivors (like Yorick)?There is, of course, much more to it than that, however...
Posted by Thersites on April 08, 1997 at 01:47:32
In Reply to "Hamlet as a philosophical draa" posted by Dave Currie on April 06, 1997 at 17:55:35
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