Hamlets Madness
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…had very strong views about suicide. Suicide was seen as the biggest sin - more of a sin than murder - so theatregoers would not have been sympathetic towards the character Ophelia. People who committed suicide would not have had Christian burial rites; they would have been taken by churchmen and their naked corpses would have been thrown into a pit. People believed that the person committing suicide would go straight to hell. Word count 1286
…had very strong views about suicide. Suicide was seen as the biggest sin - more of a sin than murder - so theatregoers would not have been sympathetic towards the character Ophelia. People who committed suicide would not have had Christian burial rites; they would have been taken by churchmen and their naked corpses would have been thrown into a pit. People believed that the person committing suicide would go straight to hell. Word count 1286
