Hamlet act 5 scene 1
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- I tell thee she is. Therefore make her grave straight. The crowner hath sat on her and finds it Christian burial.
- Fetch me a stoup of liquor.
- Is she to be buried in Christian burial when she willfully seeks her own salvation?
- Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.
- Has this fellow no feeling of his business? He sings at grave- making.
- For no man, sir. That was a woman sir; but, rest her soul, she’s dead.
- What man dost thou dig for?
- (digs and sings) In youth when I did love, did love, Methought it was very sweet To contract–o–the time, for–a–my behove, Oh, methought, there–a–was nothing–a–meet.
- Let me see. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.
- Here’s a skull now. This skull has lain in the earth three-and-twenty years.
- 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. As the gravediggers chat and dig on, one asks the other to fetch some alcohol.
- No more ceremonies, shards should be thrown at her!
- What, the fair Ophelia?
- Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhileTill I have caught her once more in mine arms.
- The gravedigger digging starts to sing, and from a distance Hamlet and Horatio see them. Upon seeing this, Hamlet was furious by the gravedigger's disrespect, so he goes to ask the gravedigger whose grave is he digging, he says "For no man, sir. That was a woman sir; but, rest her soul, she’s dead” .
- I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothersCould not with all their quantity of loveMake up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
- What is he whose griefBears such an emphasis, whose phrase of sorrowConjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,Hamlet the Dane.
- Good my lord, be quiet.
- The devil take thy soul!
- The gravedigger goes on to speak about skulls and pulls one out mentioning it's 23 years old. The gravedigger tells Hamlet that this is the skull of Yorick, the king's past jester. A man that used to make Hamlet laugh is now just a mere skull. Hamlet realizes that all men will eventually become dust, even great men like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
- For love of God, forbear him.
- O, he is mad, Laertes.
- Strengthen your patience in our last night’s speech.We’ll put the matter to the present push.—Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.—
- Suddenly,the funeral procession for Ophelia enters the churchyard including Claudius, Gertrude, Laertes, and many mourning courtiers. Hamlet and Horatio back away as the procession approaches the grave. As Ophelia is laid on the ground, Hamlet realizes she is who had died. Since Ophelia had killed herself, the priest doesn't give Ophelia a proper christian burial, and Laertes was furious about that. He leaps into Ophelia’s grave to hold her once again in his arms.
- Hamlet jumps to the scene infuriated declaring his love for Ophelia. He cries that he would do things for Ophelia that Laertes could not dream of, that he would eat a crocodile for her, he would be buried alive with her. Enraged, Hamlet storms off with Horatio.
- Gertrude and Claudius declare that Hamlet is mad. The king urges Laertes to bare with Hamlet and reminds him of their plan for revenge.
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