Hamlet17

village17 Each major character of Shakespeare’s Hamlet has a major flaw, which destroys him or her. The business leader, Queen, Hamlet, Ophelia, and Polonius all have these flaws still Horatio does not. He is Shakespeare’s ideal man. Claudius’ fatal flaw is ambitiousness.

Claudius kills his fellow office Hamlet and then takes the throne by marrying King Hamlet’s married woman: “Therefore our sometime sister, promptly our world-beater…have we (as ‘twere with a defeated joy, with an auspicious and a dropping eye, with mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, in mate scale weighing delight and dole) taken to wife”(I.ii.10-14). Claudius admits to cleaning the King in a confessional prayer: “O, my shame is rank, it smells to enlightenment; it hath the primal eldest curse upon’t, a familiar’s murder…O, what form of prayer can overhaul my resign? ‘Forgive me my foul murder? That cannot be, since I am assuage possessed of those effects f...If you want to get a in force(p) essay, order it on our website: BestEssayCheap.com

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