So let's talk about this lie. The lie of omission perpetuated by all advanced high school english and freshman comp classes alike.
>Oh look, Hamlet just happened to find Yorick's corpse and get moody!
No you fucking fucks. As the court jester Yorick was a member of the royal court, specifically a member of the royal court whose job it was to speak the truth even if it was guised in humor. The significance of this entire scene is that Yorick was found just outside of the castle in a shallow grave years after his mysterious disappearance without explanation. The obvious implication is that "someone" had him murdered, particularly someone within the castle who felt that they could freely murder a member of the King's court back when Hamlet was a child. If we're narrowing it down, it was probably Claudius, the same guy who murdered the King back then.
Hamlet didn't have to hear from a ghost to know that something was foul in Denmark, he probably knew it quite well when a man who used to make him laugh and give him rides on his back was murdered for making a crack about the King's brother trying to sneak into the King's wife's bed shortly before the King's murder.
TO BENIS OR NOT TO BENIS
>>7448934
/thread
>>7448934
10/10
>>7448934
kek
>>7449019
good filename
>>7448924
bump
>>7449019
This is like when someone pointed out the arrow in the negative space of the FedEx logo to me. I'll never be able to look at a map of Europe without seeing this for as long as I live.
>>7448924
Why wasn't the clown concerned when he discovered Yorick's skull, then? And whoever said Yorick disappeared mysteriously?
>making a crack about the King's brother trying to sneak into the King's wife's bed shortly before the King's murder.
Yorick has been rotting "some eight year or nine year". King Hamlet was murdered two months before the play.
This is Zeldawiki-tier speculation.
>>7448924
Literally no textual evidence
>>7453733
Norway doesn't join the EU so that the dick stays on the coin
>>7453785
Norway is on that coin, though
>>7448924
Have you heard the one about Iago being a Turk spy sent to assassinate Othello so as to tip their odds in the Cypriot war?
>>7448924
The ill omen, as well as a quantam superposition of the Falstaff character that is in every Shakespeare play. In a play about death, the wise fool is death itself.
Iirc even though there were plenty of trash things about reading Hamlet in hs they pretty much got the Yorick thing right
>>7448924
>Yorick was found just outside of the castle in a shallow grave years after his mysterious disappearance without explanation
They buried Ophelia on that spot, how is it shallow?
>>7454007
>They buried Ophelia on that spot, how is it shallow?
>burying a self-slaughterer
>not burying her in an unmarked, shallow grave
u don't understand Christian Europe, do you m8
>>7454017
Maybe you're meant to assume the jester killed himself too.
