... father's murder. Hamlet must be completely certain of who killed his father, he thinks before he acts while Laertes acts on impulse and seeks immediate gratification. Hamlet - Act V 1. The comic interlude featuring the two gravediggers at the beginning of Act IV serves several purposes for the play. For one it adds comic relief to the story, which up to that point ... equalizes the social classes portraying how both a nobleman or a servant end up buried below the same ground, being the same dust despite the riches or the rags. Moreover the comic interlude adds intensity and irony to the...

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