<P> The Second Gravedigger exits as Hamlet and Horatio enter, and the First Gravedigger begins to sing a song on the topics of love and graves as he digs . He throws a skull (and later a second) up and out of the grave . Hamlet then talks to Horatio about how inappropriate it is to treat what used to be someone's, and possibly an important someone's, body in such a way . He decides to ask the Gravedigger whose grave he is digging, but the Gravedigger will not reveal the answer without another witty exchange . </P> <P> Soon, it is revealed that the Gravedigger has been digging graves since the day Hamlet was born . The two then briefly discuss Hamlet's insanity (which they are able to do because the Gravedigger does not know Hamlet by sight). It is shortly thereafter that the Gravedigger points out a skull that used to belong to the Yorick, the king's jester and Hamlet's caretaker . Hamlet asks if this could really be so, and the Gravedigger responds with, "E'en that," (V.i. 159), marking his last line in the play . </P> <P> When together, the Gravediggers speak mainly in riddles and witty banter regarding death, with the first asking the questions and the second answering . </P> <P> Gravedigger What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter? </P>

What is the importance of the grave digger scene in hamlet