really matter what you did during the time when you were alive. Every worldly possession that someone has is gone once they die; there is nothing anyone can do about it. They still go back to the earth and get their fine pate full of fine dirt.The most important speech in act5 in this speech that shows the most about Hamlets feelings about death is this,HAMLETNo, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither withmodesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: asthus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; ofearth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto hewas converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!From this you could speculate that Hamlet believes that after you die there is a part of your soul, or part of the person, that is left behind. More than just the bones and flesh that are devoured in the ground by worms, but part of who they were. The line Imperious Caesar, dead and turnd to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that the earth, which kept the world in awe, should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw! shows this very well, because Hamlet talks as if the clay that Caesars body turned into had some sort of importance or value just because it was part of the physical Caesar. You may also think a person never truly dies, since their body still remains even if it is turned into a beer-barrel cork or a patch on a wall. So in essence, Hamlet believes that a persons soul is to go to either hell or heaven, but still part of them is left behind. What part of them that is left behind Hamlet does not specify, but there has to be something since he refers to a dead physical body of an important person having meaning.The finding of Yoricks skull troubles Hamlet greatly because he remembers him when he was al...
