Question

The gravedigger helps to reinforce the theme of ____ in Hamlet.

A. Comedy
B. Morality
C. Mortality
D. Insanity

Answer 1

A- Comedy. He was used as comic relief for this piece of Hamlet.
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Answer 2

C. Mortality

Eventhoug he provides comic relief, the gravedigger actually confronts hamlet with his own mortality, is not up untill this point that he realizes that we are all in the end, a pile of bones.