Betrayal Of Claudius The King In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play full of sorrow and excitement, its full of gore and incest. The play has a large amount of betrayal and the person supplying most of that is Claudius, the king and Hamlets uncle. Claudius is cold-hearted, full of hate, and a coward. He is the king but, the ironic thing about that is he should not be and as Hamlet is the prince, the death of his father should put him at the throne.

     The play starts off with a tense setting, as the guards have seen a ghost that looks like the old king or Hamlets father who they believed had died of a snake bite. This is the showing of the first cruel deed Claudius has done, the reader does not know yet but Claudius is

This further proves how cold-hearted Claudius is, he has killed his brother, taken his crown, taken his wife, has been discovered, and he still does not feel guilty at all about what he has done.

     Claudius now knows that Hamlet has figured him out and what he has done, so Claudius plans to send Hamlet away to England with a note for the king of England to have Hamlet killed.
Hamlet on the way to England also figures out this plan of Claudius’s and he returns to Holland on a pirate ship and Rosencratz and Guilldenstern are the ones that are killed in England. Claudius again showing his hatred wants Hamlet dead badly and he tells Laertes, the son of Polonius a man that Hamlet killed earlier in the play, that he and Hamlet will have a jousting match. He then said,
“When in your motion you are hot and dry, -As make your bouts more violent to have prepar’d him a chalice fort the nonce, escape your venom’d struck, our purpose may hold there';(3). Here