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Hamlet: The Graveyard Scene

In the churchyard, two gravediggers shovel out a grave for Ophelia. They argue whether Ophelia should be buried in the churchyard, since her death looks like a suicide. According to religious doctrine, suicides may not receive Christian burial. The first gravedigger, who speaks cleverly and mischievously, asks the second gravedigger a riddle: “What is he that builds stronger than the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?” The second gravedigger answers that it must be the gallows-maker, for his frame outlasts a thousand tenants. The first gravedigger corrects him, saying that it is the gravedigger, for his “houses” will last until Doomsday.

Hamlet and Horatio enter at a distance and watch the gravediggers work. Hamlet asks the gravedigger whose grave he digs. Hamlet picks up a skull, and the gravedigger tells him that the skull belonged to a politician then a lawyer and finally Yorick, King Hamlet’s jester. Hamlet tells Horatio that as a child he knew Yorick and is appalled at the sight of the skull. He realizes forcefully that all men will eventually become dust, even great men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.

I- Life after Death

Hamlet's encounter with the gravedigger explains the nature of death and is a turning point in Hamlet's character. The structure serves to move Hamlet and the audience closer to the realization that death is inevitable and universal. It gives to him a realistic outlook on the nature of death and his own fate. Hamlet mokiling speculate that the skull could belong, the first one, to a politician, a past master in the art of manipulation. Hamlet is saying that these changes to life to death it’s a good thing to keep in mind which makes us all humble to the end of life. Hamlet speculates that the second skull belongs to a lawyer at makes a series of punning comments about them. The lesson of the graveyard scene is that death is eventually inevitable. Having hamlet learn this