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In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, we learn a large amount of characteristics about young Hamlet’s character. During act five, the gravedigger scene, I feel we learn the most. Shakespeare gave the readers a great deal of information during this scene. We learn about hamlets true love for Ophelia, Hamlets interest in death, Hamlets sensitive and sneaky personality, and Hamlets true age. All of this information helps us put together the entire play, and allows us to understand the play in its entirety.

Throughout the entire play, Hamlet’s love for Ophelia was questioned. Hamlet finally shows his true love for Ophelia during Ophelia’s funeral. Hamlet expressed to everyone , that he truly loved Ophelia. This shows that he genuinely cared about her, and was deeply in love. During the funeral Hamlet leaps into Ophelia’s grave, and fights with her brother Laertes , saying “ Be buried quick with her, and so will I” (5.1. 239). Hamlet is expressing to the reader that he wants to be with Ophelia forever, and that he feels that there is nothing left to live for now that she has died. Hamlet tries to prove to Laertes that he loved Ophelia more than he did. Hamlet says “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her? “(5.1.229-231) This shows us that hamlet wasn’t insane, he was trying to prove himself to Ophelia.

The scene of the gravedigger also shows that hamlet is extremely interested in death. While observing the gravedigger, he questions why we all try so hard during our lifetime to be great. “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?” (5.1.166-168) Hamlet is concerned that someone so who was once so great, could now just be dust on the earth’s ground. Hamlet is saying to us that it does not matter what someone did while they were alive, because we all end up in the ground, and are all treated the same after death. Hamlet also seems more interested in death when one of the gravediggers shows him a skull. The skull happened to belong to Yorick, who was Hamlets father’s jester. Hamlet was shocked to see that Yorick was now just a pile of bones in the church yard. He could see that Yorick was the same as all the other bodies in grave yard. Hamlet was interested in how death makes everyone equal, and that gender, age and status are all forgotten after you pass on.

Another important detail Shakespeare revealed to us was that hamlet was a sensitive person. He was annoyed when he heard the gravediggers making jokes about Ophelia’s death, and singing while they were digging out the grave. “Why, there thou sayst. And the more pity that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even Christian.” (5.1.21-23) The grave digger was speaking, saying the rich have more freedom to commit suicide. The grave digger then began singing, as hamlet and heratio entered. Hamlet was extremely bothered by this, and starts to rant to Heratio, saying “That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once. How the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain’s jawbone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'erreaches, one that would circumvent God, might it not?” (5.1. 61-62) Hamlet is saying to us that the gravedigger is disrespecting the dead, and is treating the skulls as if it use to belong to a murderer. Hamlet is tremendously angry and tries to speak to the gravedigger. He asks “How long hast thou been a grave maker?”, and the grave digger responded “… It was that very day that young hamlet was born… I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years. “(5.1.117, 129) This section of the play reveals to us Hamlets true age.

Shakespeare included a lot of detail and information in the last act of Hamlet. I feel that I was able to piece together parts of the play, and understand them more readily. Hamlet’s true self was revealed during act 5, and we learn that he was a genuine man. He was a loving, caring, and sensitive character.