Hamlet is seeking justice for his father’s death, what hamlet sees is a good king was pushed out by a bad king. Claudius is Hamlet’s uncle who became king after his father died, his mother Gertrude remarried. Hamlet believes he is not a good king and is using the kingdom for his own personal desires, Claudius feasts while ignoring the people of Denmark. “The lists, and full proportions are all made out of his subject; and we here dispatch you, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand, for bearers of this greeting to old Norway, giving to you no further personal power to business with the King more than the scope of these dilatated articles allow” (Hamlet 23). Claudius signed a bad treaty paying taxes for something that was already won in battle by
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Which motivated him even more to seek justice and build a case. Polonius who is the Lord Chamberlain of Claudius’s court suggests that hamlet may be in love with his daughter Ophelia, he agree to spy on Hamlet, but he does not seem to be in love with her and orders her to enter a nunnery. When hamlet decides to kill Claudius, he finds him praying and decides not to kill him because he considers that killing him while praying will send him to heaven and decides to wait. Claudius now fears for his life and orders Hamlet to be sent to England, and Hamlet goes confront his mother where Polonius was hidden behind a tapestry. When Hamlet heard a noise, he believed it to be Claudius and took out his sword stabbing through the fabric killing Polonius. After Ophelia’s father’s death she drowns herself in a river. Laertes who is Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother returns to Denmark and is convinced by Claudius that Hamlet is to blame for the death, Claudius is using Laertes for revenge to murder Hamlet. Laertes will fence with Hamlet and Claudius poisons Laertes blade, and as a backup he poisons a goblet which he will give to Hamlet to drink. He does not drink it but his mother Gertrude does, dying immediately from the poison and Laertes is able to wound Hamlet but cut himself as well and tells Hamlet the Claudius is responsible for his mother’s death. Hamlet
Which motivated him even more to seek justice and build a case. Polonius who is the Lord Chamberlain of Claudius’s court suggests that hamlet may be in love with his daughter Ophelia, he agree to spy on Hamlet, but he does not seem to be in love with her and orders her to enter a nunnery. When hamlet decides to kill Claudius, he finds him praying and decides not to kill him because he considers that killing him while praying will send him to heaven and decides to wait. Claudius now fears for his life and orders Hamlet to be sent to England, and Hamlet goes confront his mother where Polonius was hidden behind a tapestry. When Hamlet heard a noise, he believed it to be Claudius and took out his sword stabbing through the fabric killing Polonius. After Ophelia’s father’s death she drowns herself in a river. Laertes who is Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother returns to Denmark and is convinced by Claudius that Hamlet is to blame for the death, Claudius is using Laertes for revenge to murder Hamlet. Laertes will fence with Hamlet and Claudius poisons Laertes blade, and as a backup he poisons a goblet which he will give to Hamlet to drink. He does not drink it but his mother Gertrude does, dying immediately from the poison and Laertes is able to wound Hamlet but cut himself as well and tells Hamlet the Claudius is responsible for his mother’s death. Hamlet