Another one of the biblical references we see Shakespeare make in Hamlet is that he uses many Bible verses, as was seen in relationship to John the Baptist, but again, once sought out in more detail the amount and the depth of these references is shocking. With Hamlet being written at the end of Shakespears life, and the whole reason behind the play being about his recently passed son Hamnet, the afterlife was on the mind of Shakespeare. Shakespeare was Protestant, so it’s no doubt that he had knowledge of the afterlife. So, it is also no doubt that towards the end of his life he was thinking about it. So naturally one of the last plays he wrote would have a lot of biblical references in it, as he turned to his faith about the afterlife. Shakespears reference to Mathew 10:29 is eye opening and shocking. …show more content…
There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is't to leave betimes, let be.". Focusing on the fall of a sparrow part of that Mathew 10: 29 says, “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.” The similarities in these two may not be seen right of the bat past them both just saying a fall of a sparrow, but once dug into the significance of it can be seen. Hamlets fall of a sparrow speech is about him talking to Horatio about this duel with Laertius. Horatio was telling Hamlet how he shouldn’t participate in the duel. Mathew 10:29 is about Jesus assuring his disciples of divine providence. So, with Hamlet saying a fall of a sparrow which is clear reference to that verse, he is telling Horatio that it whatever happens is divine providence. No matter with the duel or not what is supposed to happen will, if he is to die, he will no matter the duel or