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On the other hand, Laertes wants to revenge his father’s death. Therefore this mistake murder leads Hamlet to his downfall as Claudius and Laertes want to kill him.

  In the first three acts of the play Hamlet, King Claudius go through a subtle, but defined change in character.  Claudius role in the play begins as the newly corrinated king of Denmark.  The former king, King Hamlet, was poisoned by his brother, Claudius, while he was asleep.  Claudius, however, made it known to everyone that the king died of a snakebite in the garden, and thus no one knew of the murder that had just taken place making his murder the perfect crime.  The only problem that Claudius must deal with now is his conscience.

      Hamlet and Claudius both have very different ways and methods in the way they manipulate their family and friends. Claudius and Hamlet both manipulate to get what they each want. Claudius tends to work on people and get their support and gain trust. Then, the individuals will go out of their way to please Claudius and help in any way. Claudius even goes as far as to get Hamlet's childhood friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to spy on their dear friend Hamlet. Not only does he work on Hamlet's friends, Claudius killed his own brother to marry his wife, Gertrude, so he could claim the throne. As Shakespeare writes, "A brother's murder, Pray

Laertes loses his family because of Hamlet’s actions. His father is killed by him and his sister kills herself because of her grief. Laertes and King Claudius begin to plot Hamlet’s murder, planning to poison him, by drink or wound, whichever comes first. However, the plan backfires on the both of them and Laertes dies from his own blade, but not before saying “The King, the King’s to blame.”

Laertes plots for vengeance due to Hamlet killing his father and second-handedly killing his sister, Ophelia. Hamlet, who is still a self-absorbed narcissist, is beyond clueless to Laertes intentions for fighting. In the end, Hamlet is cut with the poisonous sword, Laertes is stabbed with the poisonous sword, Gertrude drinks from the poisonous cup, and King Claudius finally gets what he deserves after Hamlet, as he’s dying, stabs him and forces him to drink the poison. Hamlet, who suffered through a road of vengeance, finally kills Claudius at the last possible second. All of Hamlet’s family and friends die because of his inability to be a man of action and a man of thought at the times when they are opportune. His delay of killing Claudius led him to become invested in his own issues and become the domino effect for the death of others. His moral ambiguity is questioned even at the end of the play because he killed Claudius at the last possible second. In Shakespeare’s tragedies, like Hamlet, Hamlet desire for vengeance ultimately corrupts the morals and decisions he makes further affecting the people around him as he is so self-involved. Hamlet’s morals suffer because he never once looked within himself to understand where he went wrong. Hamlet’s moral ambiguity creates this significance to the play by emphasizing the fact that

Beyond Claudius’ need for admiration, he also tends to disregard the feelings of people around him. This is shown in a similar way as his need for admiration, being that he kills his brother to gain power. Such a selfish action will obviously impact those around King Hamlet, but Claudius disregard that and simply does it for his own gain. He doesn’t think about how Hamlet’s death will affect Gertrude, young Hamlet, Polonius, or anyone else close to him. In the aftermath of this, instead of helping Hamlet through the hard time following his fathers sudden death, he tells Hamlet he’s not a man for mourning for such a long time. Staying on the topic of the death of a father, Claudius uses Polonius’ death to get Laertes to want to avenge his

He knew that his Uncle Claudius was guilty to the murder of his brother. While trying to get revenge for his father, he killed Polonius by stabbing him through the curtain. He thought Polonius was Claudius behind the curtain. After killing Polonius, Hamlet doesn’t react in the way a normal person would. Hamlet hides Polonius under the stairs. This act of madness leads to the death of Ophelia. Ophelia drowns herself from being stressed out and overwhelmed by the death of her father. The killing of Polonius makes Laertes want revenge on Hamlet for his father. Hamlet’s act of madness contributes to a lot of deaths throughout the

In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, various characters manipulate others in order to gain power and fulfill their personal desires. The character who portrays the most immense manipulation is King Claudius, the brother of the late King Hamlet. Thus far, Claudius advertises himself as a sensible, honorable man who lives to serve the greater good, yet his manipulation exposes his dubious intentions, leaving him with an unfortunate fate.

In the play Hamlet, Claudius is known as the villain of the play. He is the lead antagonist who is characterized as a cunning, incestuous, and vile, usurper. Many readers and critics of the play do not dispute this perception, especially after reading how Claudius became the King of Denmark; He steals the throne by poisoning his brother, the previous king, and quickly marrying Queen Gertrude his widowed sister in law (1.5.42, 60-74). The general reading of Claudius’s character paints him to be a corrupt, cowardly politician, in addition to being Hamlet’s (the protagonist) foe. This portrait engages first-time readers to judge Claudius immediately and although this perspective of his personality is proven to be true, it is limited. Claudius

Claudius is the other major example of ambition in the story, as shown through his drastic measures taken to assure that no one discovers that he killed the King and used his death as an opportunity to take up the crown. It is revealed to Hamlet by his father’s ghost that Claudius killed the former ruler in his own garden by pouring poison into his ear. This is very characteristic of Shakespeare’s tragedies, characters will kill each other off for their own ambitious agendas without hesitation for morals or law and Claudius fits into this trend perfectly. To further ensure that his status as king is not compromised, he seduces the King’s wife, Gertrude, and attempts to get Hamlet to forget his father by calling his grief childish and a hindrance to his role as the prince (365). The King’s ghost informs Hamlet that Gertrude was one of the most virtuous women alive and wouldn’t have taken lightly to his sudden death, so it is apparent that Claudius took extreme measures to get Gertrude on his side. To go through all this work to ensure that he remained in power proves that Claudius was just as ambitious to achieve power as Hamlet was to remove him from it.

Additionally, Laertes hate becomes stronger when he finds out about the death of his sister. Laetes blames hamlet for the death of his sister along with his father's death (D3: identify errors in others reasoning). Laetes now has no family and nothing more to lose but his life (E3: startling fact). Claudius and Laertes now come up with three plans to kill Hamlet, Poise his drink, cut him with poison sword, and stab with sword (D4: Paraphrase or rephrase). On the contrary, all three plans come crumbling down when Gertrude drinks the poise, and Hamlet and Laertes swap swords giving Hamlet the poison sword (E4: startling

Due to Hamlet finding this out, throughout the play he wonders if he should get revenge or not. As the play progress, the readers are let into many secrets and many destructive plans. Claudius was seen to be the one that started the domino-effect of corruption in Denmark, treason was shown to be a normal thing in Denmark, and also Hamlet’s ‘friends’ seem to also help the idea that was wrong nepotism in Denmark. Some readers may think the word rotten connects to Claudius in many ways. Late King Hamlet describe him as “that incestuous, that adulterate beast” (I.V.47), but who can blame him since especially after he married his wife of only him being “two months dead” (I.II.141).

Claudius went through with the same act except with different motives. Claudius was motivated by envy and possibly lust,things that will affect one’s judgement. Both of these topics were spoke about in the novel Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely. The characters in Hamlet are

But, is not willing to make a sacrifice since he does not want anyone else ruling Denmark besides himself. Not only that, but Claudius did not think about the impact that King Hamlet's death would have on Hamlet, Gertrude, and Denmark as a whole. Hamlet struggled significantly with his father's death and this was something that didn’t concern Claudius since he was not concerned about Hamlet’s well-being nor did he think about Hamlet while murdering his father. Also, Claudius never thought twice about how King Hamlet’s death would impact Denmark as a whole since he was a great ruler and his absence might cause the country to “crumble”. The only thing Claudius was concerned and blinded with was ruling the throne and not the fact that he would make an unfitting ruler and what would be best for the country since all he wants to do is control everyone. Furthermore, in the soliloquy, it is present that Claudius has a sense of guilt for murdering his

Claudius’ manipulation takes advantage of surrounding characters’ affection for Hamlet. Paired with Hamlet’s apparent madness, he easily sways them into doing his bidding by feeding them incorrect information, thus influencing their decisions and actions. While innocent characters like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern believe their duty is to simply diagnose the reason for Hamlet’s madness, Claudius uses their care for Hamlet and blind loyalty to plot Hamlet’s death. This along with several other attempts of spying on and murdering Hamlet eventually lead to the deaths of multiple characters including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Not only that, but all the while he is attempting to take Hamlet’s life, he is fearing for his own and desperately