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Isn't yours?The play is rife with refrences to this basic human truth. We all die. Hamlet tells us in 5.2 - " ...if it be not now, yet it will come." His concern is the next bit, "The readiness is all."
Mortality aside, to spring board a bit off of what the other Hamlet said below...
If we accept that Claudius has upset the cosmic order and balance by murdering his brother, the king (and I do), then what is Hamlet doing by committing essentially the same crime - regicide and whatever "-cide" one terms the murder of a relative (help me here Bruce)? I think that from this standpoint, Hamlet does have to die after killing Claudius or his doing so is of no real consequence. The order would be thrown off again. So the ghost does in fact set everything in motion when he charges Hamlet to seek revenge. Ya think?
Posted by Lillith on April 19, 1997 at 07:35:12
In Reply to "Hamlet's death inevitable?" posted by Not to be? on April 17, 1997 at 19:04:37
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