Claudius is a very devious and evil man in the play of Hamlet. In the play written by shakespeare there are many twist and turns in it some you wouldn't even see coming. In the play the king always wants to be in charge and he will do anything to keep that position and i mean anything. When you're jealous of someone or something you’ll do something you regret to get it. Throughout the play all the characters are learning things about each other and figure out that there whole life they haven't known about things and some of them do something about it. However the king which is Claudius has been lying his way through everything he's ever done. When Hamlet found out that his real dad was murdered by his uncle from his dad’s ghost he was overwhelmed with anger knowing that his whole life had been a joke and that he was turning to his dad’s killer whenever he needed help. Hamlets real dad’s ghost said “In My ears he poured the leprous essence whose effect is so injurious to mans blood that swift as quicksilver it runs through the veins and with a sudden force it thickens and curdles the healthy blood like acid dropping into milk”, the character Claudius did this to him just for the position as king and to marry his wife or the “Queen”. This goes to …show more content…
Claudius is also greedy along with selfish he wanted all the power to himself and he killed his brother for it, That's also a lot of guilt to live with