[hamlet: ] imperious cæsar, dead and turn’d to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away: o! that that earth, which kept the world in awe, should patch a wall to expel the winter’s flaw. –hamlet, william shakespeare which theme is best supported by the passage? death is an insignificant force. death conquers everyone in the end. death keeps the world in awe. death is a beginning, not an ending.