Hamlet Good Vs Evil

“Murder most foul, as in the best it is, /But this most foul, strange and unnatural” (I.v.33-34). The ghost of King Hamlet comes back to tell Hamlet that his brother Claudius killed him because he wants the throne to himself. Claudius knows that the best way to keep his power is to marry his brother Hamlet’s wife. That is what exactly he is planning to do, but he can’t tell anybody. People in the royal court secretly want to help Claudius to carry out his plan and it is in the works. The new King Claudius is a devious, evil tyrant who ends up dead.
Claudius pretends to be sad that his brother is now dead, “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death” (I.ii.1). Claudius calls his brother dear to him, yet he is the one who kills him. In fact “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life/Now wears his crown” (I.v.46-47). Claudius is the

He also thinks that Hamlet should be watched at all times and can’t be by himself. Gertrude and Claudius don’t want Hamlet to go back to Wittenberg because they think that it would not be good for Hamlet and he should stay in Denmark “I pray thee, stay with us. Go not to Wittenburg” (I.ii.123). This fires up Hamlet but he agrees to their wishes and Claudius is very pleased that he stays “Why, ‘tis a loving and a fair reply” (I.ii.125).
Claudius keeps saying that he cannot grieve for his brother’s death and hates Hamlet for doing so “A brother’s murder. Pray can I not” (III. iii. 42). This is extremely offensive to Hamlet but also not very surprising since Claudius recently murdered his father. It really fires him up to seek revenge against his uncle because he did this. He decides at the end of the duel with Laertes to kill him “Here, thou incestuous, murd’rous, damned dane/Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?/Follow my mother”