Yorick's Skull Symbolism In Hamlet

The royal court does not allow Hamlet the chance to think the idea he is most obsessed with: death. The royal court does not experience the grief of death. It sees death and brushes it off, as shown by Claudius: “But you must know your father lost a father, That father lost, lost his”(Shakespeare 1.2.89-91). When Hamlet arrives to the graveyard he is allowed the chance to indulge on the thought of death. Before entering the graveyard Hamlet fears death, however that changes in the graveyard scene with the use of symbolism and internal conflict. Yorick’s skull is a symbolism of death and what is to come. When Hamlet picks up the skull and looks into it, he’s symbolically staring into death itself. It is at this point of Hamlet looking deep …show more content…
No one has worth once they die. Everyone loses any value they had in the living once they die. Whether they are one of the greatest or whether they are peasants does not matter, death is impartial and absolute. Hamlet begins to solve his internal conflict on death with his last ten lines. It’s when he realizes no matter the person, whether it is Yorick, Alexander the Great, or Caesar does not matter. Once you are dead you return to the earth in a way like anyone else. There is no reason to fear death because everyone is the same once they die, and everyone dies. It at this point in the play that Hamlet grows more mature than ever. Hamlet comes to the realization that death is inevitable and absolute, no matter who someone is, their end has no exception, one day they will die and their body will rot. Hamlet loses his fear of death and begins to sees it as a natural fate that does not need to be quickened with suicide. This point marks a change in state of mind for Hamlet. With symbolism and solved internal conflict, Hamlet is now presented with resolved state of mind, absolute maturity, calmness, and a lack of

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