arabera Katie King 7 years ago
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Honelako gehiago
The scene begins with comic relief for the audience as the gravediggers use a mixture of allusions and puns to relieve a lot of the built up anticipation: OTHER Was he a gentleman? GRAVEDIGGER He was the first that ever bore arms. OTHER Why, he had none. GRAVEDIGGER What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the Scripture? The Scripture says Adam digged. Could he dig without arms? (5.1.30-36) Again, Banagh includes more of the original authors puns; GRAVEDIGGER What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? OTHER The gallows-maker, for that frame outlives a thousand tenants. (5.1.39-42)
Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. Oh, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall t' expel the winter’s flaw! (5.1.193-196) As both the director and Shakespeare allude to Caesar, they reveal that even the great must some day return to dust, dirt and clay. This part in the film helps to display the authors original intent of the scene through the figurative language used and the way in which the characters present the information/news.
Other imagery and symbolism used in this scene includes the skulls the gravedigger is removing from the already dug grave. These skulls are representations of past lives. Skulls in literature are usually a symbol or image of mortality and death. In this scene, the gravedigger is seen pulling up the skull of the king's jester who had died many years prior. This brings Hamlet back to the good days of his childhood that was filled with joy, laughter and love throughout his family and Denmark.
Hamlet: -carries on the plot -continues the theme that all that lives must one day die: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make loam—and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer barrel? (5.1.189-192) This quote from the play that can also be found in the film, reveals a theme that even the great and powerful will one day die and return to the same dirt and dust that the commoners turn into
The Gravediggers: used in this scene for comic relief -in this scene the gravediggers are the only ones on scene as they discuss the burial and death of Ophelia and comparing it to the burial of a commoner if he/she were to have died the same way as Ophelia: And the more pity that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers. They hold up Adam’s profession (5.1.24-29)