Read the passage from Act V of Hamlet. Laertes: He is justly serv’d; It is a poison temper’d by himself. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:Mine and my father’s death come not upon thee, Nor thine on me! [Dies.] Hamlet: Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee. I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!
One theme in Hamlet is "death conquers everyone.” Which statement explains how Act V of Hamlet develops this theme?
Read the passage from Act V of Hamlet.Laertes: Must there no more be done? First Priest: No more be done: We should profane the service of the dead,To sing a requiem, and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls. Laertes: Lay her i’ the earth; And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling.
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Read the passage from Act V of Hamlet. Hamlet: Let me see.—[Takes the skull.]—Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
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