Shakespeare examples?

Question

I know in many of Shakespeare's plays the characters would announce their death really dramatically just to get the point across that they're dead. Can anyone give me text examples when Shakespeare made the characters announce their death?

Answer 1

In Hamlet, when Polonius is stabbed from behind a curtain, he shouts, "Oh, I am slain!"



In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo has a very long speech before dying:

"How oft when men are at the point of death

Have they been merry! which their keepers call

A lightning before death: O! how may I

Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!

Death, that hathsuck’d the honey of thy breath,

Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:

Thou art not conquer’d; beauty’s ensign yet

Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,

And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.

Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?

O! what more favour can I do to thee,

Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain

To sunder his that was thine enemy?

Forgive me, cousin! Ah! dear Juliet, 104

Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe

That unsubstantial Death is amorous,

And that the lean abhorred monster keeps

Thee here in dark to be his paramour?

For fear of that I still will stay with thee,

And never from this palace of dim night

Depart again: here, here will I remain

With worms that are thy chambermaids; O! here

Will I set up my everlasting rest,

And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!

Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you

The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss

A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!

Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!

Here’s to my love! [Drinks.] O true apothecary!

Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. [Dies.

Answer 2

Hamlet realizes he has been poisoned and announces his death to Horatio in Act V. He dies at the end of this speech. Indeed, the rest is silence!



O, I die, Horatio;

The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:

I cannot live to hear the news from England;

But I do prophesy the election lights

On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;

So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,

Which have solicited-- The rest is silence.

Answer 3

Look at Mercutio's death in Act Three, Scene One of "Romeo and Juliet."



Look at Hamlet's death in Act Five, Scene Two of "Hamlet." At one point, he actually says, "I am dead, Horatio."



Those are just a couple of examples. You can find others.

Answer 4

how can they announce their death if they're dead?



i'm trying to think of an example of that but i cant sorry