When Hamlet returns from England, he meets Horatio near the cemetery. From a distance, they come across two gravediggers who are digging a grave for Ophelia, whose existence Hamlet is unaware of. After Ophelia's tragic death, the gravediggers relieve the tension by telling jokes that people in the audience would find funny. This humor also prepares the audience for the bloodshed that is yet to come. After one of the gravediggers leaves, the rest begin to throw the bones and skulls of previous corpses out of the grave. Hamlet watches as he throws the bones out of the grave as if they were worthless. The sight of the gravedigger throwing away what was once a person disgusts Hamlet so he approaches the gravedigger and confronts him. After a brief conversation about the grave he is digging, the gravedigger takes out a skull and informs Hamlet that "This same skull, sir, was the skull of Yorick, the king's jester" (5.1.174-175) . Unbeknownst to the gravedigger, Hamlet knew Yorick because he was once responsible for entertaining Hamlet. He picks up the skull and begins to examine it. Hamlet remembers his time with Yorick and how he was a funny guy with an incredible imagination. He states how it makes him sick to know that this is all that is left of Yorick. He makes an allusion to Alexander the Great, stating that no matter who someone is, a