Hamlet Deception Research Paper

Deception plays a pivotal part in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Deception appears most significantly in Claudius and Hamlet. Hamlet faked being crazy in order to Trick others and to prove that Claudius is guilty of killing his father the Ex Kings. Other characters such as Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern. All took part of the trickery as well to uncover the source of Hamlet’s so called madness and report back to the dishonorable king who is Claudius. The play’s ending states that “deception will always result in destruction and tragedy” and that there is no ways around it.
Dishonesty is the main cause of deaths of many characters in Hamlet, the biggest act of deception is between Claudius and Hamlet’s father. Claudius murders his own brother; who is Hamlet's father who is the king of Denmark, Claudius killed Hamlet’s father by dropping poison into his ear. The King's death was said to have been by snakebite, and Claudius now gets married to Queen Gertrude (Hamlet's mother), and is now the new King of Denmark. Claudius is deceiving Hamlet into believing that the King was killed by a snakebite, and Claudius is deceiving Hamlet into believing that he only wants the best for Denmark. At the same time, Claudius is deceiving his own brother by murdering him for the title of being king. Claudius is also …show more content…
The only reason that Claudius is deceiving to protect himself from everyone finding out that he was the one who murdered the king. This comes shows that people will do anything for power even if means killing their own brother just to be king. Many will agree that Claudius’s greed what led to his deception of his Brother and his people. This also can teach people not trust anybody because greed will over power someone’s ability to makes decisions and in this case Claudius let his greed led him to murder his family and many more and led to him deceive the people of