Claudious True To Horatio In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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There were many diverse characters in this play that stayed true to themselves. Hamlet stayed true to himself and to his mission the whole play but was very false to others. Claudious stayed very true to himself but was extremely false to the rest of the kingdom. Horatio was also very true to himself and his friend hamlet throughout the play. Throughout the story many characters stayed true to themselves, but certain characters revealed they were false to others. Hamlet was very true to himself and his mission throughout the play but was very false to others. Hamlet was on a mission the whole play to kill Caudious and he deceived many people through faking insanity.”now might I do it pat now he is a praying and how i'll do’t. and so he goes to heaven and so i am revenged that would be scanned. a villain kills my father and for I his sole son do this same villain send to heaven.” …show more content…
He is also true to Horatio because he lets horatio know what actually happened and horatio helps Hamlet determine if Claudious is guilty or not. He is very true to himself that way but he also leads others to believe that he is purely insane with his father's death and with ophelia and in this is is very deceiving and false to most others. In these ways hamlet shows how he stays true to himself and false to others. Claudious stayed very true to himself but was extremely false to the rest of the kingdom. Claudious stayed very true to himself the whole play with many different circumstances. He had one goal in the play and that was to be king. He murdered King Hamlet to become king and didn’t let anyone know which is staying true to

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