Betrayal
Throughout the play Hamlet, many promises, hearts, and most of all, the trust of one another are lost from one character to another. The theme of betrayal can be found in almost all characters including; King Hamlet, Claudius, Ophelia, and Hamlet. These characters have either been betrayed or betrayed someone else throughout the play.
King Hamlet was the first in the play to be betrayed by someone. He is betrayed by his own brother. Claudius not only conspired to get rid of his brother, but he went through with his plan and murdered the king by poisoning him. King Hamlet received another wrongdoing a mere two months after his death, “With which she followed my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears—why she, even she (O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason. Would have mourned longer!), married with my uncle, My father’s brother, but no more like my father. Than I to Hercules (1.2 148-153).” This is an explanation of how Gertrude betrayed the King by marrying someone that had taken his place, she had not only married her brother, but her murderer.
Ophelia had her heart completely ripped out of her; she had her love, trust, and entire plans for her future destroyed. “You …show more content…
Hamlet had to find a means to speak his mind without saying too much to get himself sent away or killed. “You were sent for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough to color. I know the good king and queen have sent for you. (2.2 300-304)” Hamlet had no one to trust, his peers from school had unknowingly sided with Claudius to attempt to get him to confess his lunacy. If it were not for Hamlet’s cunningness, he would have fallen into Claudius’s plan and let him get away with his horrible
Throughout the play Hamlet, many promises, hearts, and most of all, the trust of one another are lost from one character to another. The theme of betrayal can be found in almost all characters including; King Hamlet, Claudius, Ophelia, and Hamlet. These characters have either been betrayed or betrayed someone else throughout the play.
King Hamlet was the first in the play to be betrayed by someone. He is betrayed by his own brother. Claudius not only conspired to get rid of his brother, but he went through with his plan and murdered the king by poisoning him. King Hamlet received another wrongdoing a mere two months after his death, “With which she followed my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears—why she, even she (O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason. Would have mourned longer!), married with my uncle, My father’s brother, but no more like my father. Than I to Hercules (1.2 148-153).” This is an explanation of how Gertrude betrayed the King by marrying someone that had taken his place, she had not only married her brother, but her murderer.
Ophelia had her heart completely ripped out of her; she had her love, trust, and entire plans for her future destroyed. “You …show more content…
Hamlet had to find a means to speak his mind without saying too much to get himself sent away or killed. “You were sent for, and there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft enough to color. I know the good king and queen have sent for you. (2.2 300-304)” Hamlet had no one to trust, his peers from school had unknowingly sided with Claudius to attempt to get him to confess his lunacy. If it were not for Hamlet’s cunningness, he would have fallen into Claudius’s plan and let him get away with his horrible