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Horatio is suggesting that the appearance of the ghost of King Hamlet might be an omen—comparable to how dead people rose from their graves right before Julius Caesar’s death.

Shakespeare’s dialogue echoes Scripture, regarding the dead who came back to life, at the moment when Jesus breathed his last breath and was dead, crucified on the cross.

But these same people soon would rise from their graves—after His resurrection.

Therefore, Shakespeare’s message is that this play offers not just fearful warnings about death.

The Hamlet play also offers a hopeful and positive message of life, and even rebirth.

“A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets.”

Horatio

Matthew 27.52-3 And the graves did open themselves, and many bodies of the Saints, which slept, arose. And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

GNV