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Contexts (Christianity (Both Hamlet and Claudius express sentiments that…

- - - - Claudius considers the possibility of repentance and consequent pardon of his crime --> thinks of a great power of mercy --> aware it's pointless to ask for forgiveness
      - Hamlet refuses to kill him in the prayer. Would prefer to wait until he finds him engaged in some wicked deed that will damn his soul forever
- - - - Horatio makes reference to comets and an eclipse
        
        Such remarks would have enhanced the atmosphere of fear and foreboding created in the opening scene
- - - - The life expectancy would be 35 years
  - - - On London bridge, the heads of executed criminals were exposed to public view on pikes.
        
        Opposite the Globe theatre stood the bear pit, in which chained animals were mauled to death by savage dogs