Posted by El on February 26, 19103 at 20:37:44:

In Reply to: Re: biblical/mythological allusions in hamlet posted by cristina on December 09, 19102 at 17:57:09:

1.the allusion to Jephthah judge of Israel and the sismilarity that is drawn between him and Polonius. u can find the story of Jephthah in the bible under 'judges'- forgot which chapter.
2.claudius' soliloquy in the prayer scene, he associates sin with blood and repentence is as 'white as snow'- thats an alusion from the bible.
3.Claudius' soliloquiy again, reffers to the 'primal eldest curse (…) a brothers murder’ which is a reffrence to the narrative of Cain and Abel in Genesis chapter five.
4. Hamlet also makes an allusion to Cain- when he observes how the grave digger hurls a scull to the ground "as if it were cains jawbone, that did the first murder" (ull have to check this, i dont remember the quote exactly.
5. "Fie, ‘tis a fault to heaven,
A fault against the dead(...)whose common theme
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,
From the first corse till he that died today"
'first corse' Claudius makes yet another allusion to the first death- which was a murder...hence the Cain and Abel story again.

there u go- thats five. u happy now?

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