Realm_Of_Deception

Realm Of Deception Realm of Deception Shakespeare’s tragedies create environments which allow the character’s decisions to assume the darkest of ends. The Shakespearian play, Hamlet, yields the catalyst of dark deeds to Claudius, brother of King Hamlet. Claudius, stricken by the deadly sin of avarice, poisons King Hamlet and marries his adulterate wife, Gertrude. The deceit of Claudius sets the basis for mistrust and action between the characters. This beginning deception of Claudius creates Hamlet’s use of deceit to fight deceit and leads to the climatic deceit at the end of the play. Claudius, the originator of deceit, creates his deception through his lust for the throne and Gertrude. This lust for the throne permits Claudius to go to extreme measures to gain royal power. Claudius kills King Hamlet with an ironic weapon, poison. This choice of a weapon is ironic because just as poison is disguised in its action Claudius attempts to disguise his motives. Claudius’s motives become clear when soon after the death of King Hamlet Claudius marries Gertrude, and allows his false emotions towards the death of the King to be shown. Claudius’s murder of the king and early marriage of Gertrude are hamlet, claudius, deceit, deception, king, claudius’s, play, gertrude, death, motives, mask, madness, hamlet’s, fight, end, creates, poison, out, now, life, create, attempts, allows, allow, wife, weapon, villain, through, throne, reveal, power, new, murder, marries, marriage