Aim: What significance does the graveyard scene

hold for Hamlet’s final intentions?

Do Now: What do you think it means that Hamlet was

born on the day King Hamlet defeated King Fortinbras?

What does this line mean? Does Hamlet apply to this statement or should

we give Hamlet more credit? What do you think?

“… the hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.”

Who was Yorick? To whom does Hamlet compare Yorick? What existential conclusion does Hamlet confirm,

yet again? Why is his conclusion this time perhaps more real? How does Yorick’s skull become a symbol in this play?

Yorick’s Skull

In other words…

“Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all

their quantity of love / Make up my sum.” From where is this proclamation of love coming? How does Hamlet have the audacity to claim

that he loved Ophelia more than forty thousand brothers ever could?

[Leaps in the grave]