In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, the character Polonius gave his son Laertes advice, “this above all to thine own self be true”. In this small excerpt of literature, it can give a lot of outside information on our opinion of the characters. Beginning with Polonius, the one who said this statement, is not being true to others. Just an example is when he uses his daughter Ophelia to get information on Hamlet. Claudius, hiding the fact that he murdered his brother. But mostly throughout the whole play, Hamlet, who was keeping this secret of despair on his shoulders. Hamlet first begins to hide a secret in the very beginning of the play, learning from the Ghost that Claudius has killed his father, Old Hamlet. As a character who is already going