Hamlet Essay Assignment
Do you think people feel the effect of death (mourning) in different ways? Many individuals won’t think they do as they would believe they have this idea of equality which in reality is fictional. They hear stories of death on the news and adopt a sense of sadness but shed no tears, but as a loved one dies, tears enough to fill a well are expelled. Face it, there is no sense of equality and sorrow is discriminated depending on rank, whether to a person or otherwise.
The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Poem “Mourning For Cats” by Margaret Atwood both develop the theme of relevance using Death Imagery by saying; those with low rank do not receive much mourning, those that bare a resemblance to us, what we once were or to who we want to be are set on a pedestal and those that were once dear to their heart are set aside from the rest. (ie unimportance, resemblance and closeness).
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Those bearing low ranks receive little or no mourning as their status does not call for it. “Mourning for Cats” in stanza 3 line 1-4, the poet refers to spiders and crabs and other life in that genre and says they will not be mourned when they die.
No one laments a spider
Nor a crab
Hookworms rate no wailing
Fish neither
It relates to Hamlet in the aspect of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They are old childhood friends of Hamlet who are recruited by King Claudius to spy on him. Eventually, they are caught in the crossfire between the King and young Hamlet and, by circumstance, they are beheaded while carrying out a royal task. Shakespeare uses their death as a proof factor in Hamlet’s life, that he is truly bent on vengeance. Their death is mentioned briefly then disregarded till the final scene, not a soul mourned (at least, no one was mentioned to have mourned) and the story carries on as normal.
Hamlet
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