Joshua Harrison, the author of this website, discusses how Hamlet’s thoughts about death change from distant and abstract to physical and direct when Hamlet holds Yorick’s skull in his hands. Harrison also demonstrates the contrasting characteristics between Yorick’s animated life and the lifeless skull and how they relate to the theme of vanitas, an artistic motif from the Renaissance time period. Overall, the website describes how Hamlet comes to understand that death is inevitable.
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