Ideology Of Religion In Hamlet

We see religion as a way to face the unknown but does Shakespeare’s Hamlet feel the same way? Hamlet incumbasses so much more than however religion play a huge factor in his life and his ideas of death. In Shakespeare 's Hamlet, the questioning of religious beliefs illuminates the inevitable mortality of man. Hamlet from the beginning of the play is confronted by a Ghost who questions all knowledge Hamlet has had about the afterlife. The Ghost of his father explains the idea that if you are murdered without confessing you are left to “hell fire” during the day and to wander the Earth at night. This idea leads Hamlet to question the ideology of life after death. The reader learns from this first encounter with the ghost that Hamlet is not

Hamlet at this time in the play is still trying to figure out where he stands on the thought of religion and where one truly goes once they die. Once again Hamlet is drawn to the thought of suicide. He questions his life “To be or not to be—that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And, by opposing, end them.”(3.1.64-68) Hamlet for the first time throughout the play is looking at religion and as to why must our lives be plagued with bad luck but Heaven be so

Since now Hamlet has been arrogant about the idea that death can not touch him however death is ever looming overhead. Until now “No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither, with modesty enough and likelihood to lead it, as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into 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? Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. O, that that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall t ' expel the winter 's flaw!”(5.1.214-223) Hamlet finally has figured out that religion has nothing to do with death. Even though religion is thought to effect death it does not since each man will face it no matter what religion. He explains that faith can not change the fact that he will die. He names great Kings that have turned into dust to help make his point even stronger that he will become the same that in the end we all become dust and are blown away with the wind. All of a sudden Hamlet is himself facing death. His last line of the play is “The rest is silence.”(5.2.343) He has finally met his end and even though he has never been a religious man he has still died. He says it’s silent to show that nothing can be said for the next life that may or may not be. Religion has no meaning when it come to death because, it comes