NATURAL+ACT+V

Marjan Faterioun Hour 1 Gravedigger**: //In youth when I Did love, did love, Methought it was very sweet To contract-O-the time for-a-my behove, O, methought there-a-was nothing-a-meet.//
 * __Act V, Scene 1, Line 62__
 * Hamlet**: Has this fellow no feeling of his business? He sings in grave-making.

In this particular quote from scene five, Hamlet and Horatio come across a gravedigger singing while he makes a grave. This brings up the issue of natural versus unnatural because even Hamlet points out that it doesn't seem right for someone to sing as they dig a grave. As the gravedigger goes on digging and piling up bones that he has taken out of the grave, he continues singing his song and it almost seems as though he doesn't care that he is handling the remains of people who once were living and breathing like him. This also is part of the whole natural and unnatural thing. Normally, people are horrified by bones and the very idea that they once were alive and part of a person, but the fact that this man can seem so careless when he does this is unnatural. Hamlet notices this and later confronts the man about it.


 * __Act V, Scene 1, Line 193__**
 * Hamlet**: Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your glashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? Quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she must come.

This quote goes along with the whole idea that it is unnatural to handle peoples bones, but it also goes much deeper then that. Hamlet picks up and starts talking to a skull, which arguably is a very unnatural thing to do. Before this, Hamlet talks about how these skulls that this man is throwing around once belonged to someone and was alive, and he also mentions how it seems like that's a very pathetic way to end up after you die. When he goes and realizes it is the skull of someone he knows, it's natural to be upset and remember the person that has passed away, but to pick it up and actually talk to it like it is that person is quite unnatural.

__**Act V, Scene 2, Line 388**__
 * Horatio:** And let me speak to th' yet unknowing world How these things came about. So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.

During the last scene of the play, Horatio says himself how unnatural everything that just occurred was. With all the people dying for bad judgment and "casual" deaths all arising from the death of one person, its hard not to think it was bad judgment. For most people, a bad decision usually ends in a punishment of smaller proportions, not death. This unnatural ending to a tragic mishap is where all the other natural and unnatural things really end up tying together. Its also coincidental to think about how we don't necessarily even know if all the deaths could be backed up by the murder of the king, since we are not so sure that the ghost was 'real' or just a figment of Hamlets mind. All in all, the way that a whole family and then some were murdered within short period of time is not natural.