Yorick's Skull


 * "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
 * of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
 * borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
 * abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
 * it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
 * not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
 * gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
 * that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
 * now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
 * Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let
 * her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
 * come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell
 * me one thing."-Hamlet (Act 5, Scene 1)

Origin
Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play tells of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark who was told by the ghost of his father to seek revenge against his brother, The current King Claudius. Hamlet starts to act insane which caught the attention of the royal court. After an actor company arrives at the court, Hamlet asks them to act the murder of his father by Claudius to make sure that Claudius killed his Father. Claudius saw the play and quickly went to a chapel to pray. Hamlet was asked to meet his mother Gertrude, The Queen and newly wedded wife of Claudius. After threatening her with murder, Polonius who was eavesdroping behind a tapestry panics and shouts for help, Hamlet, stabs him through the tapestry, believing him to be Claudius. After hiding the body in the palace, Hamlet was sent to England with his friends Rozencrantz and Guildenstern carrying a letter to the King of England to execute Hamlet. Hamlet finds the letter and rewrites it, instructing The King to Kill his two friends instead. After the ship is attacked by pirates Hamlet escapes leaving his two friends to die. After arriving in Denmark, He meets two gravediggers, preparing a grave for Ophelia, Daughter of Polonius and lover of hamlet. Who after hearing his fathers death went into madness and drowns in a brook. During the funeral Laertes, Ophelia's brother challenges Hamlet to a duel. Laertes secretly plots with Claudius to kill hamlet using a poisoned sword and Claudius would try to kill Hamlet using a poisoned wine. During the duel, Hamlet is injured with the poisoned sword but in exchanged his sword with the poisoned one and injures Laertes with it. Gertrude accidentally drinks the poisoned wine and dies. Laertes in his dying breath tell Hamlet that Claudius is to blame and dies. Hamlet the forced Claudius to drink the wine and stabs him with the sword. Hamlet then succumbs to the poison names Fortinbras, Prince of Norway as heir to the Throne. Fortinbras soon arrives at the scene, and have Hamlet body to be burried with honour.