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Hamlet 7 - College Essay

Hamlet 7

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play full of sorrow and excitement, its full of gore and
incest. The play has a large amount of betrayal and the person supplying most of that is Claudius,
the king and Hamlets uncle. Claudius is cold-hearted, full of hate, and a coward. He is the king
but, the ironic thing about that is he should not be and as Hamlet is the prince, the death of his father
should put him at the throne.
The play starts off with a tense setting, as the guards have seen a ghost that looks like the old
king or Hamlets father who they believed had died of a snake bite. This is the showing of the first
cruel deed Claudius has done, the reader does not know yet but ...

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After Hamlet heard this, he held a play where the murder of his father is reacted in a scene,
that Hamlet himself designed. The purpose of this was to see Claudius’s reaction to the scene to
prove if Claudius is the real murderer or not. After Claudius sees the play he storms out of the stage
scared and surprised. Claudius then prays to heaven for forgiveness of his sins since he knows that
Hamlet has figured out what he has done, he does this so he will not get sent to hell. Claudius says,
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”(2) He
is praying for forgiveness but he is not sorry, he just doesn’t want to get sent to hell and that is what
the quote is saying, since he is not sorry his words remain below, or on Earth. This further proves
how cold-hearted Claudius is, he has killed his brother, taken his crown, taken his wife, has been
discovered, and he still does not feel guilty at all ...

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Added: 10/1/2005 08:27:36 PM
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