to revenge him in hopes that it will fulfill his fathers journey to heaven or hell, because the current state that he is in seems worse than either of those.Hamlet may also think that Denmark is a place between heaven and hell as his father is in another place between heaven and hell. A quote from act 2 scene 2 shows this,HAMLETDenmark's a prison.ROSENCRANTZThen is the world one.HAMLETA goodly one; in which there are many confines,wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.Here, Hamlet refers to Denmark as a prison, where he cannot escape. It seems as though he wants to get away from the new king and get out of being prince. Or he sees the world as a prison keeping him from reaching heaven, like some kind of other hell that is not purely hell nor heaven. But he ensures that the whole world isnt a hellish prison, but you can infer from him saying Denmark is the worst prison, that it is the most hell-like place on earth in his mind.The gravedigger scene in act 5 scene 1 shows the most about how Hamlet feels about death. Hamlet refers to the skulls he finds belonging to other people and their past lives.HAMLETThat skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once:how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it wereCain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! Itmight be the pate of a politician, which this assnow o'er-reachesOr of a courtier; which could say 'Good morrow,sweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?There's another: why may not that be the skull of alawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets,his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?This fellow might bein's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes,his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers,his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, andthe recovery of his recoveries, to have his finepate full of fine dirt?Everyone was something during their life, and then they die, and their body returns to the earth. Hamlets attitude toward this is that, in the end, it doesnt ...
