that writhes in the reader's mind and keeps them second guessing everything and taking

nothing at face value. Nearly every character goes through at least one significant change

throughout the story. At times, each character may seem pure and good and at other

times, the same character is a corruptible, vengeful human being. Shakespeare repeatedly

uses imagery of a poison creeping through Elsinore, infecting everyone, and also images

of painting, so nothing is as it seems. The careful combination of these two sets of

imagery create an aura of mystery that captivates the reader fills them with intrigue.

Shakespeare starts his imagery of a diseased poison creeping through society early

on, in Hamlet's soliloquy in which he compares

corruption or merely a perceived change in the attitude through the putting on of

pretenses. Hamlet clearly shows how all human beings have the capacity for good and

brilliant, intriguing effect. The final scene is the epitome of this combination. Laertes

pretenses. Towards the end of the play, every character seems diseased and painted, and

The images of poison are much more easily invoked when a real life poison is used in the

seemed to have his morals corrupted when he decided to kill Hamlet through treachery.

Hamlet's old friend challenging him to a friendly duel. As Laertes death became

advisor Polonius, his friends Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, his girlfriend Ophelia, and

His friends, Guildenstern and Rosencrantz were also hired to spy on him. People seem to

painted over. Ophelia, h

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