King Claudius Essays - Characters In Hamlet, Film, Literature

October 27, 2017 Prof. Campbell King Claudius, as you have read in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, he has three traits put together. He is very intelligent, well spoken and outspoken; putting together he can become influencing and dangerous. It is mostly his conscience that makes him such a villain. Regardless of his rise to power, he calmly and careful ly planned and executed his work. Claudius demonstrated and shows how to persuade one's mind to do whatever he wants. He didn't expect certain things to arise throughout the play. In the play, Hamlet is introduced as a troubled man in deep depression. He was upset about the death of his beloved father and his mother's marriage to his uncle. In Act 1 Scene 2 Claudius gives Hamlet a speech to try and get him to stop bringing up his father, mainly fearing the more King Hamlet was talked about, or remembered, the more likely people were to look into his death. \"'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father: But, you must know, your father lost a father; That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound.\"(1.2 2 01) It's understandable that he wanted Hamlet to move on quickly, but a parent's' death isn't going to settle well especially not knowing how they died. This speech seems carefully planned out, as if Claudius had written it out before he delivered it. Haml et had probably been lamenting his father's death for quite some time now, so Claudius had ample time to compose the speech. Hamlet puts on the play intended to catch Claudius in his guilt. He brings the question of time up to Ophelia beforehand, \"For loo k you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours\"(3.2. 124-125). But Ophelia says, \"Nay, tis' twice two months, my lord\",(3.2.126). Hamlet has not realized it has been four months since his father has passed, he goes on to contin ue to express how he need to get over the death in the speech. Hamlet begins to understand the situation of his father and slowly heels, as he passes through the other stages. \"Observe my uncle. If his occulted guilt/do not itself unkennel in one speech, / it is a damned ghost that we have seen, /and my imaginations are as foul as Vulcan's stithy\" (3.2.85-89). This quote indicates that Hamlet accepts his father's death, as he still has the strong determination to find out if his uncle is the one to blame for his death. Furthermore, Claudius starts his discourse saying, \"'Tis sweet and honorable in your temperament, Hamlet, To give these grieving obligations to your dad\", however that he \"must know your dad lost a father, That father lost, lost his.\"(1.2.87-89 ) But he affronts Hamlet, including \"'Tis unmanly grief.\"(1.2.94) This is the opposite Claudius says to Laertes later in the play, where he says that he should act rapidly, \"Time qualifies the start and fire of it. There lives inside the very fire of adora tion. A sort of wick or snuff that will subside it\"(4.7.114-116). He would incline toward it is Laertes acted while his sentiments of scorn and retribution were still new, though it would be ideal if Hamlet be close-lipped regarding his dad as opposed to k eeping his memory new in everybody's brains. He at that point persuades Hamlet that his distress \"demonstrates a will most wrong to heaven.\"(1.2.95), implying that he ought to rather be upbeat for his dad, for he is currently in paradise. Yet, it isn't unt il the point that later that we discover that the phantom isn't in paradise by any stretch of the imagination, rather enduring in \"sulf'rous and tormenting flames\"(1.5.3). Subsequent to catching wind of his dad's murder Hamlet's bitterness rapidly transfor ms into outrage, and he plots the retribution that he feels his dad merits. While this discourse is given to Hamlet, it is for the advantage of Gertrude, who is instrumental in taking care of the passionate Hamlet. All things considered, it is she who pers uades Hamlet not to go Wittenberg, demonstrating how well Claudius can control individuals, even the ones he claims to love.