incest. The play has a large amount of betrayal and the person supplying most of that is Claudius,

the king and Hamlets uncle. Claudius is cold-hearted, full of hate, and a coward. He is the king

but, the ironic thing about that is he should not be and as Hamlet is the prince, the death of his father

The play starts off with a tense setting, as the guards have seen a ghost that looks like the old

king or Hamlets father who they believed had died of a snake bite. This is the showing of the first

cruel deed Claudius has done, the reader does not know yet but Claudius is the reason that King

Hamlet dies. The reader knows that it is Claudius when Hamlet encounters the ghost and the ghost

tells Hamlet, "Thus I was sleeping, by a brothers hand, of life, at crown, of queen, at once

dispatch'd."(1) The meaning of the ghost's quote is that he is telling Hamlet that Claudius killed

how cold-hearted Claudius is, he has killed his brother, taken his crown, taken his wife, has been

again showing his hatred wants Hamlet dead badly and he tells Laertes, the son of Polonius a man

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."(2) He

that Hamlet killed earlier in the play, that he and Hamlet will have a jousting match. He then said,

Hamlet has figured out what he has done, he does this so he will not get sent to hell. Claudius says,

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