- laertes and hamlet forgive each other at the end (retribution)
- hamlet with yoric's skull ('everyone turns to dust in the end')
- Gravedigger's reluctance to dig ophelia's grave due to suicide (christian burial) -- water analogy
-priest's conversation with Laertes about burial rituals; says if it weren't for the king, she'd be burried outside the church graveyard. Laertes claims his sister was pure.
- ghost; acknowledged by the living, therefor apparitions are validated within the play; talks of purgatory
-Horatio warning hamlet not to fight laertes; hamlet asserts that faith guides him (protestant principle)
-Hamlet's indecision about suicide; to be or not to be soliloquy
-Ophelia escapes through death
-Claudius praying -- chooses his current riches/power over going to heaven; never asks for forgiveness.
-hamlet as a martyr figure/christ figure; "The final words of Jesus ("It is finished") and Hamlet ("The rest is silence") are similar, and Horatio beckons the angels to carry Hamlet."
-Gertrude unable to see the ghost
- Hamlet justifying the murder of polonius as an act of god (further indicating his belief in fate/destiny -- a protestant principle)
- general belief of the characters that murder is the ultimate form of revenge
- announcement of one's own death in the play, "oh I am slain" -- polonius
- lack of remorse for committing murder
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