Hamlet: To Kill Or Not To Kill

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wait until Claudius had sins on his soul. Why put a killer in heaven. Claudius quickly learns that Hamlet wants to have a fencing match, so Claudius decides to place poison on end of Laertes sword. Nevertheless, this was not enough, they also poured a cup of poison that Hamlet would drink, to insure that he could not escape death.
Claudius felt no need to cause a scene and possibly ruin the whole plan, so he let his wife, Hamlets mother, drink the poison. This proved a loving relationship. This is where in my mind, he gathered the strength to kill his uncle. The one thing that
Hamlet set the guidelines to his life around the prophecy, to kill the killer, was finally accomplished. He needs no more to live, he is now a complete person.

“O, I die, Horatio!/ The potent poison quite o’ercrows my spirit./ I cannot live to hear the news from England./ But I do prophesy th’ election lights on fortinbras; he has my dying voice./ So tell him with th’ occurrents, more or less, which have ...

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