Hamlet
Hamlet is scared because he does not know what happens after you die. He is not afraid to die, but he will not kill himself because he is afraid that he will go to hell. In act 3 scene 3, Hamlet shows his belief in the bible by not killing his father while he is in prayer. He says, HAMLET “A villain kills my father; and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven”. According to the bible, if you repent of your sins you will be forgiven and go to heaven when you die, Hamlet believes this and that is why he does not kill Claudius in this scene. Another reason he does not kill his Claudius based on the reason above, he will not give Claudius the glory of going to heaven when Claudius did not give his father the choice to repent of his sins before he was killed. Hamlet’s belief in what happens after you die first came about after his father’s ghost tells him about his experience with dying before repenting of your sins. In act 1 scene 5, the ghost of Hamlet’s father says, GHOST “I am thy father's spirit, Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.” “Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, . . .
So in essence, Hamlet believes that a person’s soul is to go to either hell or heaven, but still part of them is left behind. HAMLET “Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Or he sees the world as a prison keeping him from reaching heaven, like some kind of other hell that is not purely hell nor heaven. HAMLET “That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches” “Or of a courtier; which could say 'Good morrow, sweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?” There's another: why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?” “This fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt?” Everyone was something during their life, and then they die, and their body returns to the earth. The line “Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that the earth, which kept the world in awe, should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!” shows this very well, because Hamlet talks as if the clay that Caesar’s body turned into had some sort of importance or value just because it was part of the physical Caesar. ” Here, Hamlet refers to Denmark as a prison, where he cannot escape. But he ensures that the whole world isn’t a hellish prison, but you can infer from him saying Denmark is the worst prison, that it is the most hell-like place on earth in his mind. That line shows his emotions of finding the skull as “abhorred”, which is a synonym of hate. A quote from act 2 scene 2 shows this, “HAMLET Denmark's a prison. of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd: Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd, No reckoning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head: O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!” The line “Doom’d for a certain term to walk the night, and for the day confined to fast in fires” shows Hamlet that his father is neither in hell nor heaven, but in some kind of middle world, but still on the earth at night, maybe in hell in the day. Hamlet’s attitude toward this is that, in the end, it doesn’t really matter what you did during the time when you were alive. You can tell his emotions are sad and sorrowful by his reaction to finding the skull. It seems as though he wants to get away from the new king and get out of being prince. More than just the bones and flesh that are devoured in the ground by worms, but part of who they were.
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