Key Passages
Act V
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V.i
"Let me see. Alas, poor Yorick....Make her laugh at that,"
Hamlet's nostalgic emotions expressed in this soliloquy illuminate how he knew Yorick when he was a child and how quickly time decays humans, physically and spiritually. This soliloquy speaks to the fundamental idea that everyone returns to the earth, no matter how noble and mighty he/she might be. Also, this morbid talk of death in scene one foreshadows the pending death of all of the main characters in the castle. 

V.i
"I loved Ophelia, Forty thousand brothers...I'll rant as well as thou."
Hamlet is expressing his deep love for Ophelia; he exclaims that he would do anything for Ophelia and no man could match his love for her. This makes the death of Ophelia so much more tragic because the audience knows that it all stems from Hamlet's misinterpretation of Ophelia giving his gifts back, which, is a signature of Shakespeare.