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Read the excerpt from Hamlet. Hamlet: No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam, and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away Shakespeare makes allusions to the great rulers Alexander and Caesar to contrast the deaths of Alexander and Caesar. show how kings should behave around death. compare Hamlet to two rulers who died. emphasize that everyone eventually dies.

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emphasize that everyone eventually dies.

Hamlet here is looking at bones and realizing that everyone, no matter what you did in life or how important and famous you were (like Caesar and Alexander), dies and is turned to dust and clay from their bones. 
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In the excerpt from Act V Scene I of Hamlet, Shakespeare makes allusions to the great rulers Alexander and Caesar to emphasize that everyone eventually dies. In this scene, Hamlet picks up a skull and the gravedigger tells him that it belonged to Yorick, his father's jester. As a child, he was very fond of him and is very sorry at what became of him. Then, he says that all men will have to face this same fate, even rulers like Alexander and Caesar who ruled the world, are now dust.