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In the play "Hamlet" the protagonist, Hamlet, is obsessed with the idea of death, and during the course of the play he contemplates death from numerous perspectives. He ponders the physical aspects of death, as seen with Yoricks's skull, his father's ghost, as well as the dead bodies in the cemetery. Hamlet also contemplates the spiritual aspects of the afterlife with his various soliloquies. Emotionally, Hamlet is attached to death with the passing of his …

…end to treachery and marks a new beginning, it also steals from the world a faithful son, a loyal friend, and a noble hero, as established with Hamlet's noble burial at the end, "Let four captains bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage, for he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royal; and for his passage, the soldiers' music and the rite of war speak loudly for him" (5,2,441-445).