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Hamlet Claudius Essay - College Essay

Hamlet Claudius Essay

Kevin Garland
PRD 8/Lee
AP Lit
12/19/14

Hamlet Extended Essay

Investigate the character of Claudius. Hamlet claims that Claudius has no redeeming qualities. He is, after all, a murderer and a usurper. Is Claudius totally without merit? Where, if at all, is he a sympathetic character? Decide if there is more to him than the one-dimensional character Hamlet would like us to see.
Claudius, Hamlets uncle and major antagonist is a shrewd, lustful, conniving and murderous king. Not only did this conniving king murder his brother to take the thrown but also married his widow a mere month after. For the most part Claudius has more deteriorating qualities than redeeming ones, (other ...

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quality, his conscience. After Hamlet is confronted by his dead father's ghost and told "the serpent that did sting thy fathers life now ears his crown" (1.5.45-47) Hamlet conjures up a plan to expose Claudius as the man who murdered his father in cold blood. In order to do this he requests that the two players reenact a scene where his nephew murders the player king in the garden this in turn causes the king to stop the play and rush out saying "light, give me light" (3.2.295), proving the ghosts word that the King (Hamlets father) had been murdered by Claudius. However, he does not just condemn himself with guilt for the murder of his brother; moreover, he leaves the play, and starts to pray for forgiveness. More specifically, he reaches out to the divine to request forgiveness, this intern grants him an extra few days of life, because hamlet sees him praying and chooses not to kill him because if he had killed him while he was in prayer he would go to heaven instead of ...

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