A student analyzing the appearance of the ghost in Act I of Hamlet includes this sentence in the analysis. Death conquers everyone. The student identified a

“Death conquers everyone” expresses a broad idea about life and death that a reader can interpret from the play. That makes it a theme. A topic would name a subject more generally, such as death, while plot refers to events and character refers to a person in the play.

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